From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: <83y30qoro5.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="197358"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 22 20:22:53 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hpcxZ-000pEX-9l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:22:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpcxY-0006Ww-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpcxU-0006Wq-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hpcxU-0000a1-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3913 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hpcxT-0006mY-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:22:47 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from ndame on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:06:30 +0200 (CEST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121226 Archived-At: > From: ndame > 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.