From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "52870@debbugs.gnu.org" <52870@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#52870: [External] : bug#52870: Is displaying <menu-bar> bindings in describe-function useful?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:44:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk+LjneTuFEnocmsJFSL=j=e7r5qthRToSB+K=SszDZFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54881416C4263B18F40C495EF3559@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> FWIW I think it would be a good idea to do something like this:
>>
>> It is bound to C-h f, <help> f, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe>
>> <describe-function> (which means it can be invoked from the menu:
>> "Help Menu" -> "Describe" ...).
IMO, that would be a step backwards. This bug report started out with
me saying that this information is already confusing and distracting,
and this would make it even more so.
I don't think we should pretend that menu items are key bindings, because they
are not. That is just an implementation detail. Our user manual correctly
contrasts the two:
"Each Emacs frame normally has a 'menu bar' at the top which you can use
to perform common operations ...
"On a display that supports a mouse, you can use the mouse to choose a
command from the menu bar ...
"Some of the commands in the menu bar have ordinary key bindings as
well; if so, a key binding is shown after the item itself."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-15 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-29 12:40 bug#52870: Is displaying <menu-bar> bindings in describe-function useful? Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-29 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 14:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 20:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 21:01 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-30 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-30 15:43 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-15 10:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-15 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-15 10:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-15 12:09 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-15 22:50 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-15 23:44 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-01-16 2:59 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-15 22:37 ` Drew Adams
2021-12-29 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-25 19:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 6:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-28 10:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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