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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:24:51 -0400
> 
>   > When I suggested to use C-h d, the response was that this (or the
>   > equivalent index-search in Info) is not the solution being sought.
> 
> 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.