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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:274436 Archived-At: Any chance of getting Helpful, https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful, into official Emacs? In the contributor list I see some familiar names which already contributed to Emas, so they have signed FSF papers, but also some unkown ones too. I would like to have it partly because it does more than built-in help, partly because it would also be possible to speed up autoloads (and ugly quickstart file). Since helpful consults sources upon request for docs, there is no need to pack docs into autoloads, which on my system resulted with heavily slimmed quickstart file too. I remember that some time ago both helpful and whichkey were discussed on this list, but I have no idea what was conclusion if there was any.