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Subject: Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
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    On the contrary, C-u is not friendly to newbies. So maybe a better
    solution is to add/redefine two new bindings, `C-h c' and `C-h o' for
    commands and options, respectively.

It is a mistake to try to help newbies by providing an even larger
number of help commands for them.  So this idea is self-defeating.

By the way, C-h c is already a help command, and a very basic one,
which we will not change.