Re: [DISCUSSION] "quick-help" popup for org-columns (column view)

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>>
>>> Since transient.el is part of Emacs now, these kinds of menus should
>>> probably be implemented with it.
>>
>> IIUC, this is not a menu, but a reminder of key bindings that are usable
>> in that context.  Other keybindings here are self-inserting keys, which
>> are equally useful, and they wouldn't be available in a transient.

The point of quick-help is to provide a persistent buffer with useful
bindings, comparable to what Nano does OOTB.

> I am wondering how quick-help, transient, and which-key (AFAIU, it is to
> be included into the core soon-ish) play together.
>
> transient provides a specific way to define the displayed layout, among
> other things. At the same time, quick-help provides an alternative
> (undocumented) way to define the layout. And which-key uses pre-defined
> layout.

One critical difference between which-key and transient compared to
quick-help, is that the latter has nothing to do with prefix maps, but
(by default) just presents global bindings, and is as such closer to a
curated version of `describe-bindings' (sort of like how `shortdocs' is
a curated version of `apropos-functions').

> I am wondering if transient style to define how various options in the
> menu/help buffer/which-key buffer can be unified.

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Philip Kaludercic