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According to the DInfo source, the documentation string of |
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"use the source, Luke" (for Star Wars fans). I think it was considered adequate documentation for the menu to explain itself in situ vs in a separate document, with HELPSYS and later DINFO transforming the document into online. One of the things missing in Medley's common lisp is handling of documentation strings in some places -- perhaps this was a CLtL 2 addition? Now you can look up arglist and search in several sources on typein (including the Common Lisp HyperSpec ) using the "man" command or "?" during typein, but I think this could be also linked to s-edit's meta-H. |
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In principle, the FIND command in the DINFO menu should just be an alternative to being able to type Meta-F as in other Tedit windows and in most operating system windows: Find a string in this document.
In which case the FIND in the menu could be removed, and the confusion would go away.
… On Sep 28, 2023, at 9:05 AM, Larry Masinter ***@***.***> wrote:
"use the source, Luke" (for Star Wars fans).
I think it was considered adequate documentation for the menu to explain itself in situ vs in a separate document, with HELPSYS and later DINFO transforming the document into online.
One of the things missing in Medley's common lisp is handling of documentation strings in some places -- perhaps this was a CLtL 2 addition? Now you can look up arglist and search in several sources on typein (including the Common Lisp HyperSpec ) using the "man" command or "?" during typein, but I think this could be also linked to s-edit's meta-H.
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Now that I know what it does I think having |
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What's the difference between the
Find!and theLookup!command in the free menu of DInfo? The LispUsers documentation only mentions the latter, which looks up in the index.Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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