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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Justin Burkett <justin@burkett.cc>
Subject: Include which-key.el in the Emacs distribution
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 13:54:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmvVRqnQGA_d8bMA66SXbpjis+j-1UiceY7Lk7eY6iugA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Dear all,

`which-key' is a package that unobtrusively shows you the available
keybindings at the bottom of the screen upon typing a prefix command
(after a configurable delay).  It is an excellent alternative and
complement to the default help.  See the screenshot here:

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/justbur/emacs-which-key/master/img/which-key-bottom.png

`which-key' is in GNU ELPA, and was upgraded yesterday:

    https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/which-key.html

I propose to include `which-key' in the default Emacs distribution.
I expect that it will be extremely useful for beginning users, but it also
helps advanced users to quickly look up and discover keybindings.  In my
experience, that is true even in modes you already know deeply.

I've proposed this before, and have not seen any objections so far.
So I'd like to ask here again, to see if people have any concerns or
pointers for how to go about it in practice.

Any comments?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

PS. I personally think it should be enabled by default, but we would
    probably do better to first include it as an option for people to
    get more experience with it.



             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-08 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-08 13:54 Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-09-08 14:01 ` Include which-key.el in the Emacs distribution Ergus
2020-09-08 14:16   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 17:29   ` Yuan Fu
2020-09-08 17:40     ` Justin Burkett
2020-09-08 20:40       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 16:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-08 17:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 17:37     ` Amin Bandali
2020-09-08 17:51       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-08 17:54         ` Justin Burkett
2020-09-08 18:06           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 18:11             ` Justin Burkett
2020-09-08 20:40               ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-08 18:10           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-08 18:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 19:12         ` Amin Bandali
2020-09-08 18:25 ` Caio Henrique
2020-09-08 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-08 20:14   ` Ergus
2020-09-08 20:40     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-02-11 21:31       ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-13 17:30         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-14  9:04           ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-02-14 16:23           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-14 22:09           ` Tim Cross
2022-02-13 17:59         ` Stephen Leake
2022-02-13 18:17           ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-13 23:25             ` Stephen Leake
2022-02-14  2:47               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-14  3:09                 ` Justin Burkett
2022-02-14  3:46                   ` Corwin Brust
     [not found] <<CADwFkmmvVRqnQGA_d8bMA66SXbpjis+j-1UiceY7Lk7eY6iugA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<E1kFgO6-0000cE-Dj@fencepost.gnu.org>
2020-09-08 17:55   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <<83sgbskwq8.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-09-08 18:05     ` Drew Adams

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