From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu. Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:24:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20191114182445.GA4297@ACM> References: <20120305100726.GB2824@acm.acm> <87v9s3w7ym.fsf@marxist.se> <87o8xfo66x.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="211782"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: Stefan Kangas , 10945@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 14 19:25:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJns-000ssB-2H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60478 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJnq-0007qF-Fi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJnj-0007od-H2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJni-0002hc-K0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJni-0002hY-Gn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJni-0007Vy-CD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10945 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 10945-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10945.157375589328868 (code B ref 10945); Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10945) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Nov 2019 18:24:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35224 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJnZ-0007VX-5A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:64842 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iVJnX-0007VO-6X for 10945@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 13251 invoked by uid 3782); 14 Nov 2019 18:24:49 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FE1564A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.86.74]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:24:45 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4301 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Nov 2019 18:24:45 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87o8xfo66x.fsf@mail.linkov.net> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171608 Archived-At: Hello, Juri. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 22:56:30 +0200, Juri Linkov wrote: > >> emacs -Q > >> C-h ? ; brings up the help menu > >> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog": > >> C-x ; intending C-x o > >> The menu disappears. This isn't friendly. > > We can now search that window using `C-h ? C-s', and it switches to > > the *Metahelp* window. This functionality was added in this comit: > > 956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655) > > `C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though. > > Is that good enough here? > Maybe help-for-help should use the minibuffer for reading commands > instead of using explicit read-key-sequence? This would allow > switching to the *Metahelp* window with 'C-x o'. This sounds like an excellent idea. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).