From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:35:37 +0200 > From: Bob Rogers > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:26:46 -0700 > > Pursuant to the 'No more "Prefix Command" in C-h m' discussion in the > emacs-devel list. Thanks. > --- a/etc/NEWS > +++ b/etc/NEWS > @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ This allows the user to customize the prompt that is appended by > This is used for displaying the time and date components of > 'display-time-mode'. > > +** New user option 'describe-bindings-show-prefixes'. > +If true (the default is false), restores the "Prefix Command" entries We use "If non-nil", not "If true". And similarly for "false". Guess I've been thinking too much in Perl lately. ;-} > +in 'describe-binding' ('C-h b') output for keys that are prefixes, the > +details of which are shown later (regardless of this option setting). This NEWS entry should go to where the change in "C-h b"s behavior is described in NEWS (on emacs-29 branch), and should be reworded to tell users how to get the previous behavior back ("To get the previous behavior back, customize ..."). OK. I also subordinated it to the "Keymap descriptions have changed" entry, since that seemed apt. > +(defcustom describe-bindings-show-prefixes nil > + "Non-nil shows prefixes in the output buffer of `describe-bindings'." > + :type 'boolean > + :group 'help > + :version "30.1") This should be "29.1". Since the behavior change was introduced in Emacs 29, we need to add this option in the same version. OK, I wasn't sure Lars' change actually made it into 29. -- Bob