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: Keybinding styles Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lf4dnk0z.fsf@gmail.com> <87wnnr2rgn.fsf@gmail.com> <83k0jql32w.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuim2bys.fsf@gmail.com> 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="19809"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=C3=A9?= A. Gomes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 15 22:16:26 2021 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 1mQbKT-0004wI-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52448 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQbKS-0005yG-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQbJ8-0004kO-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQbJ6-00012A-QU; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQbJ6-00027Y-7B; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tuim2bys.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=A9?= A. Gomes on Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:40:59 +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:274774 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. ]]] > But I brought the subject from another perspective. When a user runs > (info-emacs-manual), shouldn't it reflect Emacs' state? Concretely, if > I rebind C-x C-f to something else, the manual should tell me. It seems > to me like a missed opportunity. That would fit into the spirit of Emacs documentation, but calling it a "missed opportunity" supposes that we have an opportunity to do it. Do we have an opportunity? Maybe, but I tend to doubt it. I tend to think that doing this correctly is a big job; a simple search and replace will get confused and make mistakes. I could be mistaken. If it turns out to be easy, why not? But I don't think this is important enough to be worth a lot of work. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)