From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 01:12:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmk2Fa=namFqbdtbL-XsZMGoP1uSVRH3YHeJn3L7yUrPBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgr17fwc.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> To customize a variable from the groups buffer, you click or type RET
> on the arrow to expand its customization form, right? However, the
> doc string of the variable is still shown in its one-line variant.
> I'm saying that showing the full doc string as result of that could be
> a sufficient solution.
That could work, but if the docstring is long it might be considered
disruptive.
>> Maybe we are miscommunicating. I mean that if we add a new command
>> `customize-describe-variable', it won't complicate `describe-variable'.
>
> But then you usurp the "C-h v" key binding for another command, and
> the user cannot invoke the original Help command easily?
That's true. But if the only difference between the original command
and the new one is that the new one gives you a default, whereas tho old
one gives you no default, perhaps this is okay.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-22 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 16:27 bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize Drew Adams
2008-06-12 21:19 ` martin rudalics
2008-06-12 21:28 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-06 12:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-06 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 16:33 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-10-20 21:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-20 21:27 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2021-10-21 3:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-21 3:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 3:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-21 5:01 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 16:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-22 17:13 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21 4:26 ` Drew Adams
2021-10-21 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 15:47 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-21 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 2:36 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 15:38 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22 17:22 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21 16:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 17:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 19:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-10-22 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 16:56 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-22 3:30 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22 16:51 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-23 18:25 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-06 17:06 ` Drew Adams
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2020-09-06 17:13 ` Drew Adams
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