From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "What's This?" in Describe submenu Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:06:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4308398B.60401@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124669407 22905 80.91.229.2 (22 Aug 2005 00:10:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 02:09:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6zr6-0004eP-EJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:08:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6zun-0006Bk-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E6ztS-00063X-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E6ztF-0005uP-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6ztC-0005re-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E6zpx-00019L-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E6zpF-0008Di-MQ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:06:05 -0400 Original-To: martin rudalics In-reply-to: <4308398B.60401@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:21:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42296 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42296 What is the purpose of the "What's This?" entry in the Describe submenu of the Help menu? The only difference to the "Describe Key..." entry beneath is that the latter is bound to `describe-key-1' which is not defined anywhere. A discussion in November 2002, based on noting that Windows menus have a "What's This" feature, concluded that (present and former) Windows users would recognize the name "What's This" and know what to do with it. So it would help them. I have never been a Windows user, so I can't judge for myself. Do those here with Windows experience agree that that menu item will be understood by many users?