From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, 4897@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4897: 23.1.50; Info-index and ? in minibuffer
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4edf2082-bc96-4fc8-a499-6f74f62fb456@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83eeyqk7yu.fsf@gnu.org>>
> It is very unusual for an index entry to include the question mark, so
> I think the case for the change is quite weak.
That's true. And the fact that using `?'
immediately shows `*Help*' helps (especially if
that help tells you about `?' - see below).
So I retract my vote to remove it.
___
However, it might be better for the displayed help
to not immediately disappear if you click it or
try to search it (`C-s'), etc., and to put it into
a separate window. I.e., let it just do what
`C-h m' does.
And it might be better for the displayed help to
put this first line before other key descriptions:
? Display this help. (`C-q ?' inserts `?'.)
h Invoke the Info tutorial.
q Quit Info: reselect previously selected buffer.
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2019-11-02 15:38 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-11-10 8:26 bug#4897: 23.1.50; Info-index and ? in minibuffer Helmut Eller
2009-11-12 7:23 ` Glenn Morris
2019-11-02 5:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-02 8:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 15:22 ` Drew Adams
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