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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: 19164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19164: 24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnJA5OBNtjaH05VC0MNHk2WKN9r9s5LgLkPJxmjWRdpvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85a7dseg65.fsf@gmail.com>

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
> > I think that it makes more sense to display help as the default behaviour rather
> > than inserting the help at point.  The use case for this behaviour is when the
> > user wants to know what a command does in a brief way without showing the
> > help buffer.
>
> I think you've misunderstood the request.  It's about the behaviour when
> describe-key-briefly gets a prefix argument.  *Currently* it inserts
> '<key> runs the command <command-name>'.  The request is to insert just
> '<command-name>'.

I see.  That makes a bit more sense, to be honest.

> > Therefore I'm against making this change.
>
> That said, I'm not really keen on this request either.

Me neither.  Anyone else?

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-05 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-24 16:16 bug#19164: 24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-05 13:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-05 13:58   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-05 14:10     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-08-02 14:09       ` Stefan Kangas

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