From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:56:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46627@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 07:57:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCW-0004Yu-RU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 07:57:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53462 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCV-00030Z-Sk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCM-0002zU-KW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCM-0004qH-D8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCM-0003fn-Cl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:57:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46627 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 46627-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46627.161380421214103 (code B ref 46627); Sat, 20 Feb 2021 06:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46627) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2021 06:56:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50837 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCC-0003fO-Ir for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45264) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMCA-0003fB-Bj for 46627@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMC4-0004ih-RJ; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:56:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lDMC3-0006FU-Nc; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 01:56:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:06:16 -0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200397 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > As recently discussed on emacs-devel, it could be useful to have a > command `describe-command' to search for commands. What would this command do? "Search for commands" is not very clear. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)