From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 50881@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:03:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtnuh7en.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ka3dwgn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:20:10 +0300)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 50881@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:20:10 +0300
>
> > That's the problem with thinking your personal preferences are
> > definitely good for everyone else. They aren't.
>
> This is not a personal preference. I looked through the eyes of
> a beginner
I don't think we can pretend to look at this through the eyes of a
beginner. We are too far from that, all of us here.
> who types 'C-h C-h' to get help, and the first thing
> the user sees is that parens are highlighted on the first line:
>
> (Type <PageDown> or <PageUp> to scroll, C-s to search, or q to exit.)
Yes, and I see no problem with this. So yes, it is personal
preference of yours. Let's hear the beginners themselves when Emacs
28.1 hits the street. Until then, let's stand by our own decision: to
enable this mode by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 23:10 bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 6:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 7:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 10:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 15:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 17:08 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 16:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 17:57 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 19:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 19:52 ` bug#50881: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-30 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-29 7:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 15:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 16:06 ` Stefan Kangas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83mtnuh7en.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=50881@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=juri@linkov.net \
--cc=stefan@marxist.se \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).