From: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 33320@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33320: 27.0.50; `describe-key' fails to display help for C-mouse-3
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:18:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvkqkqk3.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9aybs3l.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2018 09:57:50 +0200")
At 09:57 +0200 on Friday 2018-11-09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> C-mouse-3 is a kind of prefix key, and we never display
> help for prefix keys, we always wait for the user to type the complete
> key sequence, which in this case includes menu selection.
Oh, I see. That makes sense, now that you say it!
Perhaps the documentation for `describe-key' should mention that? It
might say something about it displaying that final hyphen while it is
waiting for more input, when a complete key command has not yet been
entered for it to display help on.
> You need to select one of the menu items by clicking on it, then you
> will see the help for that item.
Right. I understand that now. [Although in this case I wasn't looking
for the documentation of one of the menu items, I was looking for the
documentation for whatever function pops up the menu itself.]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-08 21:49 bug#33320: 27.0.50; `describe-key' fails to display help for C-mouse-3 N. Jackson
2018-11-09 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-09 19:18 ` N. Jackson [this message]
2018-11-09 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-02 19:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-11-09 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-10 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-10 21:45 ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-12 10:16 ` Robert Pluim
2018-11-12 13:34 ` martin rudalics
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