Re: Include which-key.el in the Emacs distribution

[Justin Burkett <justin@burkett.cc>]

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> I don't see the relevance, sorry.  When I type "C-h" with
> which-key-mode on, I see a paging hint at the bottom line, and that
> hint simply doesn't work (and nothing else I tried does).  By
> contrast, the vanilla "C-h" doesn't say anything about
> describe-prefix-bindings, so the problem will rarely if ever happen.
>

Ah, if it's just about the hint, then yes, that should be hidden in that
case.

IMO, this UI needs to be improved, certainly if we want to turn this
> mode on by default.  For starters, how about using the usual Emacs
> scrolling keys for showing the next/previous page?
>

I wasn't advocating for it to be on by default, but yes, the UI could
probably be improved. It's a difficult problem (at least for me), because I
wanted which-key to be passive and not interfere with how emacs processes
key sequences. That's why I used the help-char escape mechanism to do the
paging. As far as the default keys, that's an easy change of course.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:06 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Justin Burkett <justin@burkett.cc>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 13:54:08 -0400
> > Cc: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
> >       emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> >  I.e., you cannot paginate through the commands if you are issuing C-h
> >  and have which-key-mode on.
> >
> > You also can't invoke describe-prefix-bindings from C-h in vanilla
> > emacs.
>
> I don't see the relevance, sorry.  When I type "C-h" with
> which-key-mode on, I see a paging hint at the bottom line, and that
> hint simply doesn't work (and nothing else I tried does).  By
> contrast, the vanilla "C-h" doesn't say anything about
> describe-prefix-bindings, so the problem will rarely if ever happen.
>
> IMO, this UI needs to be improved, certainly if we want to turn this
> mode on by default.  For starters, how about using the usual Emacs
> scrolling keys for showing the next/previous page?
>

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