Re: [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier

[chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>]

On 07 Dec 2012, at 10:12, Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Actually, there is already a function for that, called
>> `help-xref-interned', so all we need is to give it a nicer
>> name
>> (e.g. describe-symbol), and an `interactive' spec which
>> provides completion.
> That's what my patch does.

FWIW, when faced with a similar issue long ago, I did something like
this:

	;; add apropos to Help
	(define-key help-map "A" 'apropos)

Actually, I rebind `a' to apropos and bind `A' to apropos-command, but
I doubt Emacs wants that change by default. Neither of these gets
completion, if that's important to you. At the time, I liked the word list
well enough that I didn't miss completion, but that was before things
like ido, icomplete, and anything/company/helm/etc were so common.

Hope that helps,
~Chad