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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 34784@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34784: 26.1; Doc of pseudofunction key `<timeout>'
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:39:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f5adb9a-4892-4d96-9bb4-1a9109007da8@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<837ed99p36.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > > > Anyway, back to the point of this bug report: How
> > > > is a user to know this info about `<timeout>',
> > > > without digging into the code?
> > >
> > > Why should they?  This is an internal matter between CUA and itself, a
> > > detail of its implementation.
> >
> > Huh? Why shouldn't they?
> 
> Because it's an implementation detail.

How so - what makes you think that?

> > If a user sees this help:
> >
> >  key             binding
> >  ---             -------
> >  C-c <timeout>   copy-region-as-kill
> >
> > and s?he wants to know how to invoke
> > `copy-region-as-kill' starting with prefix `C-c',
> > where is s?he supposed to turn for that info?
> 
> To the source code, of course.

To understand an external, user-visible, external, key
description from `C-h' a user needs to dig into the
source code?  That's a sorry stance for Emacs help to
take, I think.





       reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-03-08 19:39           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-03-08 19:48             ` bug#34784: 26.1; Doc of pseudofunction key `<timeout>' Eli Zaretskii
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     [not found]     ` <<838sxp9u54.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-03-08 17:20       ` Drew Adams
2019-03-08 18:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08  1:27 Drew Adams
2019-03-08  1:29 ` Drew Adams
2019-03-08 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 16:52   ` Drew Adams
2019-03-08 17:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 19:22   ` Stefan Kangas

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