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From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "What's This?" in Describe submenu
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:30:48 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508220430.j7M4UmT12547@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upss6wsmo.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:35:43 +0300)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

   > That thread was mainly concerned with other stuff, but I believe the
   > only real problem was that "Describe Key" did not make it clear that
   > it also applies to menu items.

   The tooltip that pops up for that menu item does make this clear.

In my previous reply I misread this.  The tooltip does make _that_
clear.  But it does not clear up any of the misunderstandings caused
by two menu items that do exactly the same thing, but whose names (as
well as the mere fact that they are different menu items) suggest that
they do different things.

The point I made was that the only reason for the confusing
duplication was that "Describe Key" did not make clear that it also
described menu items, whereas "Describe Key or Menu item" does make
this clear, hence eliminating the need for the confusing duplication.

Sincerely,

Luc.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-21  8:21 "What's This?" in Describe submenu martin rudalics
2005-08-21 17:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 17:59   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 21:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-21 21:38       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  3:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22  3:55           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  4:30           ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2005-08-22 20:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 23:39               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 22:10       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 17:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-21 18:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  0:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22  0:50   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  8:52     ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-22  9:09     ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-22 19:35     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 22:16       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22 22:59       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  1:59   ` David Robinow
2005-08-22  3:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22  7:17     ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-22 10:43       ` David Kastrup
2005-08-22 19:35     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 23:15       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-22  7:58   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-22 16:37     ` Drew Adams
2005-08-23  1:29       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 19:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-22 20:15       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-23  3:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23  0:08       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23  3:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23  4:23           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 14:40             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 19:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:55               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23  4:29           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23  7:15             ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-23 14:37               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23  4:40           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 19:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:56               ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-24  3:38                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-24 12:46                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24 14:10                     ` David Robinow
2005-08-24 18:51                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-25 10:42                       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-23  4:56           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-23 19:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 19:56               ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-23 23:05                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24 10:33                 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-23 22:02               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-08-24  3:46                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-25  8:54                   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-25 18:05                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23  1:29     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-22 16:23   ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-23 14:08 Drew Adams
2005-08-23 14:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-23 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-23 20:53   ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-24  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-24  7:15       ` Jason Rumney

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