From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 52058@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52058: 29.0.50; Confused by usage and documentation of "C-x 8 e e"
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:11:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r37otc6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
I did:
emacs -Q
C-x 8 e e
This pops up a window with a list of Emoji categories and the
respective Emoji. It looks like a normal popup window Emacs shows,
for example *Help* or a list of completion candidates, so I just typed
<UP> arrow to dismiss it as I'm used to. (Or maybe I expected the
arrow keys to allow selection of categories?) This displays the
following message in the echo-area:
Unbound suffix: ‘<up>’ (Use ‘C-g’ to abort, ‘?’ for help) [previous-line]
Tried some other keys with a similar effect. (What is "suffix", and
"unbound" on top of that?) So finally, I press '?', hoping it will
show me the light. This gets me the following:
Type a <KEY> to show help for that suffix command, or ? to show manual.
Type C-g to exit help.
Tried to type some <KEY>. For example, 'a'. This produces:
emoji--command-Emoji\ >\ Animals\ &\ Nature is an interactive compiled
Lisp function.
(emoji--command-Emoji\ >\ Animals\ &\ Nature)
Not documented.
This function is for interactive use only.
Hmm... not very helpful, as I still don't understand how to do
something useful here. "Not documented"? hmm...
But I'm not yet frustrated enough for C-g, so I type a second '?',
hoping to see the manual, and is presented with the following:
emoji--command-Emoji is an interactive compiled Lisp function.
(emoji--command-Emoji)
Not documented.
This function is for interactive use only.
Where's my promised "manual"?
So, bottom line, I think it would be mighty good to make this
interface more user-friendly, so that it at least describes what
<KEY>s one can type to produce something useful. And if it promises a
"manual", please make it show something to that effect...
In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 210, i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2021-11-23 built on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Repository revision: 8b62b20159f8ec3f5c7ea5227f814681741d61b1
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
System Description: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v5.1.0.2600)
Configured using:
'configure -C --prefix=/d/usr --with-wide-int
--enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -gdwarf-4 -g3''
Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY
W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP
XPM ZLIB
Important settings:
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1255
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
indent-tabs-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media rmc puny
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mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
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find-func shortdoc text-property-search help-fns radix-tree emoji-labels
emoji transient cl-seq format-spec edmacro kmacro eieio eieio-core
cl-macs eieio-loaddefs cl-extra seq gv subr-x byte-opt bytecomp
byte-compile cconv help-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib iso-transl tooltip eldoc
paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode
mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars
term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register
page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors
frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button
loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap
hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 128507 10597)
(symbols 48 12084 1)
(strings 16 51322 3299)
(string-bytes 1 1264079)
(vectors 16 24397)
(vector-slots 8 320035 12877)
(floats 8 74 75)
(intervals 40 8376 93)
(buffers 888 11))
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-23 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-23 14:11 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-24 7:46 ` bug#52058: 29.0.50; Confused by usage and documentation of "C-x 8 e e" Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-28 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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