From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:12:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87tuq8ryk6.fsf@gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35879"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 46627@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 14:13:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lD5b7-0009Ed-4S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:13:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57872 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD5b6-0003Dv-16 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Please find attached > a patch that adds such a command. Good idea. > I don't know if we should add a key binding, since the most obvious > place to put it, `C-h c', is unfortunately already taken. Perhaps > `C-h x' would make some sense in analogy with `M-x'. (Or perhaps it is > worth moving `describe-key-briefly'...) So I solved it here by not > adding any key at all, for now. > > Thoughts? Yeah, the `C-h' keymap is very full... Hm... `C-h x' does indeed seem to be the most best one among the non-taken letters. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no