From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why there is no key in the *Help* buffer to bring up the relevant info page?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:22:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y30qoro5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AxtmPA.j50qEU8YRvCW.aTBGDYWyncSTrjwaraBH@freemail.hu> (message from ndame on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:06:30 +0200 (CEST))
> From: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:06:30 +0200 (CEST)
>
> > How about filing a feature-request bug report about this?
>
> I may do that, I just asked here, because it seemed strange that
> the help buffer missed such a basic feature, though I think many
> elisp developers like me wanted to navigate to info from help in
> the past.
The usual reason is that what seems like a basic feature to you is not
necessarily that basic to others. Which doesn't mean the feature
shouldn't exist, just that others may not assign the same importance
to it, and thus didn't implement it yet.
> Emacs uses single key bindings extensively elsewhere where the
> buffer is read only, so it's curious the addition of such quick
> keys did not come up before during the long history of emacs development.
As usual, this has a down-side: too many keys make them harder to
remember.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-22 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-22 18:06 Why there is no key in the *Help* buffer to bring up the relevant info page? ndame
2019-07-22 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-22 18:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-30 23:08 ` Emanuel Berg
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2019-07-22 18:56 ndame
2019-07-22 20:41 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-22 15:37 ndame
2019-07-22 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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