From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 19164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19164: 24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:58:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85a7dseg65.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkpzYHgwdhaD77JeiqK0XnHLi8jNUSK3ZP8MLa_4dnaQw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2019 15:44:44 +0200")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> I think that it makes more sense to display help as the default behaviour rather
> than inserting the help at point. The use case for this behaviour is when the
> user wants to know what a command does in a brief way without showing the
> help buffer.
I think you've misunderstood the request. It's about the behaviour when
describe-key-briefly gets a prefix argument. *Currently* it inserts
'<key> runs the command <command-name>'. The request is to insert just
'<command-name>'.
> Therefore I'm against making this change.
That said, I'm not really keen on this request either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-05 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 16:16 bug#19164: 24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-05 13:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-05 13:58 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-07-05 14:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-02 14:09 ` Stefan Kangas
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