From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 60101@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60101: 29.0.60; help-quick should use C-/ for undo
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:03:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu1t6h6p.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861qoy2gbz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:10:44 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> The new help-quick command makes use of `where-is-internal' to find the
>> binding for a command ti displays. This works fine if a command has
>> only one binding, but in the case of `undo', C-_ is the first one it
>> suggests
>
> I tried to reproduce this problem, and typed 'C-h C-h' that showed:
>
> Other Help Commands
>
> C-e Extending Emacs with external packages
> p Search for Emacs packages (see also M-x list-packages)
> P Describe a specific Emacs package
>
> t Start the Emacs tutorial
> M-x help-quick-or-quit Display the quick help buffer.
> e Show recent messages (from echo area)
> l Show last 300 input keystrokes (lossage)
> . Show local help at point
>
> I wonder if typing the suggested 'M-x help-quick-or-quit'
> is really a quick way to get help?
The intended way to display the buffer is C-h q.
> Then I typed 'M-x help-quick-or-quit RET' but it doesn't exist
> with "[No match]".
>
> Then after 'C-h C-h' I tried to type 'q' (that means 'quick')
> but it closed the Help window.
>
> Finally, I opened the source code and found the command
> 'M-x cheat-sheet RET' that displayed the Help buffer.
>
> But there is 'undo' displayed as bound to 'C-x u', not to other keys.
Hmm, interestingly this is also the case for me using emacs -Q, but I
don't recally customising anything to change this...
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-15 19:21 bug#60101: 29.0.60; help-quick should use C-/ for undo Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-15 19:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-16 19:18 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-17 18:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-12-17 17:10 ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-17 18:03 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
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