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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 10945@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:24:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9s3w7ym.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120305100726.GB2824@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:07:26 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Emacs.
>
> With a recent bzr head:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-h ?       ; brings up the help menu
>
> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog":
>
> C-x         ; intending C-x o
>
> The menu disappears.  This isn't friendly.

We can now search that window using `C-h ? C-s', and it switches to
the *Metahelp* window.  This functionality was added in this comit:

956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655)

`C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though.

Is that good enough here?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-05 10:07 bug#10945: Can't search through help menu Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-04 15:43 ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 15:52   ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 15:54     ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 15:57       ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 16:05       ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 16:59         ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 18:10           ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-05  2:48             ` npostavs
2017-05-05  3:40               ` Drew Adams
2017-05-05 12:12                 ` npostavs
2019-11-01 22:24 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-13 20:56   ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 18:24     ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-11-18 21:18       ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-23  3:49         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 18:23           ` Juri Linkov

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