From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, john@yates-sheets.org
Subject: Re: Keybinding styles
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:36:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtodc0lj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuim2bys.fsf@gmail.com> (message from André A. Gomes on Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:40:59 +0300)
> From: André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com>
> Cc: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>, theophilusx@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:40:59 +0300
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > [...] So all that's needed is to add a feature to info.el to display a
> > different set of keys given some state variable.
> >
> > Of course, the printed manual will still show only the standard key
> > bindings, and so will the HTML-formatted manual we put on the Web
> > site.
>
> I agree that the printed and HTML-formatted manual must be "standard".
> The suggestion of using a state variable also makes sense.
>
> But I brought the subject from another perspective. When a user runs
> (info-emacs-manual), shouldn't it reflect Emacs' state? Concretely, if
> I rebind C-x C-f to something else, the manual should tell me. It seems
> to me like a missed opportunity.
>
> In fact, there's work done in a similar vein. When users read the
> tutorial, they're warned them about rebounded keys. To my mind, the
> same should happen with the manual.
Isn't that what I said above?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 18:00 [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration Drew Adams
2021-09-03 20:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-03 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-04 2:00 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-04 13:26 ` Keybinding styles (was: [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration) Stefan Monnier
2021-09-04 13:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-04 14:25 ` Keybinding styles Stefan Monnier
2021-09-04 15:44 ` Keybinding styles (was: [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration) Yuan Fu
2021-09-04 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-04 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-04 16:07 ` Yuan Fu
2021-09-04 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-06 11:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-04 19:55 ` Keybinding styles Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-04 20:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-05 7:17 ` tomas
2021-09-04 16:09 ` Bird
2021-09-04 20:48 ` Keybinding styles (was: [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration) Tim Cross
2021-09-05 19:03 ` John Yates
2021-09-06 4:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-07 12:02 ` John Yates
2021-09-08 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08 12:15 ` Keybinding styles André A. Gomes
2021-09-08 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-08 20:37 ` John Yates
2021-09-09 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 13:40 ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-15 14:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-15 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-15 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-15 21:29 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-09-16 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 5:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-09 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-04 16:05 ` [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration Stefan Kangas
2021-09-04 2:20 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-04 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-04 14:58 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-04 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-04 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-05 19:27 ` John Yates
2021-09-07 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-07 15:31 ` Barry Fishman
2021-09-09 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-09 14:07 ` André A. Gomes
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