From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:57:25 +0200 Message-ID: <3801b6be-dd65-c256-6c57-52894fad2b12@yandex.ru> References: <835z2o4fes.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0r1xwyy.fsf@gnu.org> <83blcdxqzy.fsf@gnu.org> <831rd9xox5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5604"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cc: larsi@gnus.org, rms@gnu.org, 46627@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 20:58:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDurq-0001Ka-FJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 21 Feb 2021 11:57:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <831rd9xox5.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200524 Archived-At: On 21.02.2021 20:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I'm arguing against the tendency to introduce a whole new discovery > framework based on completion. I think Emacs doesn't need that in > core; whoever wants something like that, can use one of the many > packages out there which implement every possible completion paradigm > under the sun. We as the core development team should not invest any > significant energy in developing such framework, but should instead > improve and enhance what we already have. I think we've "had it" ever since 'M-x' started providing completion. Right after that, it became possible to discover commands this way (and I do it all the time, too). So it's really about improving an existing feature.