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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>,
	"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 139@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:23:27 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0bd6259-7123-4d2c-8025-2921801903c6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABczVwcqHE8X7t7NHHkHeVmxtroT6pRBUBP8gGLY3P8syuwfKQ@mail.gmail.com>

> I went with `describe-widget' for the name of the command, but have no preference over the name, so if someone suggests something better, I'm OK with it.

Coming late to this party.  Apologies if
this question/comment is irrelevant or has
already been addressed.

IIUC, `C-h k' would still not offer any help
for a button click.  If I misunderstand about
that please let me know, and skip the rest of
this message.

---

It may be fine/appropriate to _also_ have
a separate help command for this (button
actions), e.g., so you can bind it to a
separate key.

But can/should we not try to also integrate
this help with `C-h k'? 

`C-h k' is for mouse-button actions as well
as keyboard keys.  From a user point of
view I'd expect `C-h k' to tell me about
any mouse or keyboard action I use.

Not having `C-h k' help with button actions
has long been a noticeable lacuna.

We already let `C-h k' tell you about both
down and up events for a click.  Why should
a user not expect that s?he can follow
`C-h k' with a click on a button and get the
expected help about what that button does
when you click it?





  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-11 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 19:25 describe-key vs. widget red tape jidanni
2019-09-30  5:56 ` bug#139: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30  7:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30  7:40     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30  8:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 10:54         ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-30 10:55           ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-30 14:57           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 20:06             ` Mauro Aranda
2019-10-01 12:29               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-05 14:06                 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-10-06  0:39                   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-07  1:55                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-08 13:04                     ` Mauro Aranda
2019-10-11 14:38                       ` Mauro Aranda
2019-10-11 15:23                         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-10-11 18:57                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 11:16                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 11:38                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-31  1:32 ` bug#139: Still can't figure out what the command I used is called 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-10-31  2:55   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2020-10-31 10:33     ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-01-19 18:30   ` bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape Lars Ingebrigtsen

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