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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
@ 2009-11-19 15:40 Jason A. Spiro
  2009-11-20  9:32 ` Juri Linkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jason A. Spiro @ 2009-11-19 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-pretest-bug

In 2007, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=65629
, dak wrote:

> Maybe we should link to [the Emacs quick reference card] in some
> manner, like offering to call
> (shell-command
>   (format (mailcap-mime-info "application/postscript")
>      (expand-file-name "refcard.ps" data-directory)))

That's an excellent idea.  You should make the many quick reference
cards that you ship in emacs/etc/refcards accessible on the Help menu.
 Could you please do that?

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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
  2009-11-19 15:40 bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu Jason A. Spiro
@ 2009-11-20  9:32 ` Juri Linkov
  2009-11-20 12:20   ` Lennart Borgman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Juri Linkov @ 2009-11-20  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason A. Spiro; +Cc: 4973

> In 2007, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=65629
> , dak wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should link to [the Emacs quick reference card] in some
>> manner, like offering to call
>> (shell-command
>>   (format (mailcap-mime-info "application/postscript")
>>      (expand-file-name "refcard.ps" data-directory)))
>
> That's an excellent idea.  You should make the many quick reference
> cards that you ship in emacs/etc/refcards accessible on the Help menu.
> Could you please do that?

Actually a bad idea as we concluded in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=105365

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/





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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
  2009-11-20  9:32 ` Juri Linkov
@ 2009-11-20 12:20   ` Lennart Borgman
  2020-11-19  2:52     ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2009-11-20 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juri Linkov, 4973; +Cc: Jason A. Spiro

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>> In 2007, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=65629
>> , dak wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we should link to [the Emacs quick reference card] in some
>>> manner, like offering to call
>>> (shell-command
>>>   (format (mailcap-mime-info "application/postscript")
>>>      (expand-file-name "refcard.ps" data-directory)))
>>
>> That's an excellent idea.  You should make the many quick reference
>> cards that you ship in emacs/etc/refcards accessible on the Help menu.
>> Could you please do that?
>
> Actually a bad idea as we concluded in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=105365


I can't see that we concluded that. Rather we had different arguments.
And things are changing.





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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
  2009-11-20 12:20   ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2020-11-19  2:52     ` Stefan Kangas
  2020-11-24  6:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2020-11-19  2:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: Jason A. Spiro, 4973

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>>> In 2007, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=65629
>>> , dak wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe we should link to [the Emacs quick reference card] in some
>>>> manner, like offering to call
>>>> (shell-command
>>>>   (format (mailcap-mime-info "application/postscript")
>>>>      (expand-file-name "refcard.ps" data-directory)))
>>>
>>> That's an excellent idea.  You should make the many quick reference
>>> cards that you ship in emacs/etc/refcards accessible on the Help menu.
>>> Could you please do that?
>>
>> Actually a bad idea as we concluded in
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=105365
>
>
> I can't see that we concluded that. Rather we had different arguments.
> And things are changing.

It's been 11 years here without any progress.

It seems extremely simple to add the reference cards to the help menu,
should we want to do it.  So I assume there just isn't much enthusiasm
for the idea, and I tend to agree: I don't see that it's very useful or
necessary to make the help menu longer for this.

I'd be inclined to close this as wontfix.  Any other opinions?





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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
  2020-11-19  2:52     ` Stefan Kangas
@ 2020-11-24  6:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2020-11-24 16:18         ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2020-11-24  6:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: Jason A. Spiro, Lennart Borgman, 4973

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> I'd be inclined to close this as wontfix.  Any other opinions?

Yes, I think so, too.

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* bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu
  2020-11-24  6:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2020-11-24 16:18         ` Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2020-11-24 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: Jason A. Spiro, Lennart Borgman, 4973

tags 4973 wontfix
close 4973
thanks

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> I'd be inclined to close this as wontfix.  Any other opinions?
>
> Yes, I think so, too.

Done.





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2009-11-20  9:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 12:20   ` Lennart Borgman
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