From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "What's This?" in Describe submenu
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:31:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854q9gu3lv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCEAGCMAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:08:59 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I don't think this is the kind of thing (naming the describe-key
> menu item What's This) that is meant, when people complain that
> Emacs could be friendlier to newbies coming from the Windows
> world. If someone is looking for help on a key or a menu item, he
> will have no problem recognizing "Describe Key or Menu Item" - it is
> in fact much clearer than "What's This?".
Actually, I'd think it kind of amusing if the _tooltip_ for this menu
entry just contained "What's this?". And it might even point somebody
in the right direction.
Anybody share that sentiment?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-23 14:08 "What's This?" in Describe submenu Drew Adams
2005-08-23 14:31 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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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2005-08-21 8:21 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
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
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