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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: gregory@heytings.org, stefan@marxist.se, 50880@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:17:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgrtdp6e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6jtw6ki.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  01 Oct 2021 09:24:45 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:24:45 +0200
> Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>, 50880@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> 
> >> What was wrong with
> >>
> >> C-h g -> About the GNU project
> >> C-h G -> Emacs copying permission (GNU General Public License)
> >> C-h C-c -> Contributing
> >
> > IMO the best proposal so far, but Lars didn't want to move the GPL
> > from 'C-h C-c' so that part unfortunately makes it a non-starter.
> 
> I'm not dead set against it -- it's not like these are commands that
> people use heavily.  But that cuts the other way, too -- making this new
> command mnemonic isn't really that important, either, since I'd assume
> that people would be accessing them via `C-h C-h' and then paging down,
> entering whatever key it says they should use.  I.e., nobody's
> remembering these keystrokes anyway.
> 
> Perhaps Eli has an opinion here?

How about not giving it a key binding at all?  Why is a key binding
important in this case?  It's not like people will want to read that
section twice a day.

> >> Also, I would put "Contributing to Emacs" in the first subsection of
> >> "Miscellaneous", after "Debugging Emacs", where it belongs.  Which by the
> >> way makes me wonder why Emacs TODO is not there, too.  It would perhaps be
> >> even better to create a third subsection with
> >>
> >> C-p Known problems
> >> C-d Debugging Emacs
> >> ?   Contributing to Emacs
> >> C-t Emacs TODO
> >
> > Good idea, I like it.
> 
> Me too.

Which part?  If this is about the manual organization, I fail to see
what's wrong with the current one, where Contributing is a chapter --
you don't get any more prominent than that.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 22:55 bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h) Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29  7:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29  9:11   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29  9:18     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-29  9:41       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 16:55         ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 17:41           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 17:45             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 17:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 18:36           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-29 16:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 16:52       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-30  1:10         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-30  6:10           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-30  7:49           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-30 11:51             ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-30 20:01             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01  7:24               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 10:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-01 10:20                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 10:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 10:32                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01 11:00                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 17:08                           ` bug#50880: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-01 18:45                           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-01 18:58                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-02 23:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-02 23:51                     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-03  5:57                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 11:55                       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-03 19:10                         ` Gregory Heytings

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