From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command," Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:21:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ft9woo68.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo377wxp.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> <87wo353f77.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27222"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 16 05:21:49 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jvuSw-0006wY-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38524 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvuSv-0002gn-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvuST-0002Hj-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvuSS-0000V9-1q; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jvuSR-0006b5-18; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:21:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wo353f77.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:27:24 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:252973 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Would it be more expected for `C-x 4 C-h k C-f` to show the help buffer > about `C-f` (forward-char) in another window? For consistency, C-h k C-x 4 C-f should show the help for C-x 4 C-f. That is find-file-other-window. C-x 4 C-f is an important command -- don't break it! -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)