From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 12:19:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1w2u20y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhaqu89z.fsf@gnu.org> <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="59742"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: philippe.vaucher@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 11:20:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jUoKH-000FRT-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55980 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUoKG-0006Xm-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 05:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUoJm-00060K-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 05:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUoJl-0000BV-BB; Sat, 02 May 2020 05:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2080 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUoJb-0007W9-5l; Sat, 02 May 2020 05:20:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 02 May 2020 12:05:22 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248388 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 12:05:22 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > Why does it fail to do the job? > > > > It doesn't fail, but there are evidently users who want to have that > > information without using the documentation features of Emacs, so any > > solution based on C-h is not acceptable to them. > > > > While there might be some users who think that way, my workflow is mainly to use `C-h f` to find the help of > > the function I'm interested in. This is where not properly namespaced libraries are hurting me. And if it wasn't clear: "C-h f" is for looking up a function whose name you already know. Which is AFAIU not the case in your original use case.