On Wed, Jan 12 2011, Mark Harig wrote: >> >> > Does C-c C-d C-i (bound to `geiser-doc-look-up-manual') have some >> > extra capability beyond C-h S (bound to `info-lookup-symbol')? >> >> Yes. C-c C-d C-i is equivalent to a info manual lookup only for Guile. >> In Racket, the command implementation is totally different. The same >> will happen when/if Geiser supports other Scheme implementations not >> offering texinfo manuals. >> > > Ah, of course. That's a very good reason. It's unfortunate that > Racket does not provide Info files or .texinfo or .tex (TeX) files, > but that can't be helped. > > I would still like to recommend the behavior of `info-lookup-symbol' > for `geiser-doc-look-up-manual'. My strong preference when looking up > documentation is for point to remain where it is in the code while > displaying the documentation in a separate (and, if needed, new) > window. With Geiser's behavior, I'll start two windows, one with code > and one with documentation, but when I invoke > `geiser-doc-look-up-manual', I then have two windows with > documentation and none with code. Having both code and documentation > available at the same time is useful because it lets me examine both > without having to switch back and forth.
You can already get that behaviour by customizing geiser-guile-manual-lookup-other-window-p. Cheers, jao -- Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. - Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programing
