From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:59:33 +0300 Message-ID: <837df4r99m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mtrrq7t7.fsf@gnus.org> <87eed0nsez.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83bl83zp5h.fsf@gnu.org> <83y27nvnb4.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilyrvgda.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7ebv39d.fsf@gnu.org> <838rznusle.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6k2nlr6.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83mto2rlyz.fsf@gnu.org> <83bl4hrxtu.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 25 17:29:33 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 1mU9cL-00013I-72 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:29:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51156 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mU9cK-0001E9-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mU99M-0004g3-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45042) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mU99L-00030u-52; Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3730 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mU99K-0003ff-N8; Sat, 25 Sep 2021 10:59:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Sat, 25 Sep 2021 16:41:34 +0200) 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:275455 Archived-At: > From: Arthur Miller > Cc: juri@linkov.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 16:41:34 +0200 > > > Thanks, but I'd prefer a prefix command, so that you wouldn't need to > > prompt for the key sequence, but expect the user to provide it > > already. For example, "C-h M-h s" would show the definition of the > > function or variable. > > I am sorry, but I don't really understand what you mean here. You would like to > be able to type: C-u C-h M-h s, intead of C-h M-h s? No, I'd prefer not to be shown a prompt for another key. > The obivous alternative I see is to globally define help-mode commands Some of them, yes. > Maybe there is other way; but I am not aware of it. The other way is to have a prefix key "C-h M-h".