From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: new help message in Emacs 25 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:58:11 +0200 Message-ID: <86v9zc86zg.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <8636mg9o5q.fsf@zoho.eu> <28b9fb52-cb67-41a9-b5ed-4d2d3bbcf094@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="213404"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 02:58:38 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 (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNt-000tPv-SU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:58:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNs-0002Fs-RI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNe-0002DW-8t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNd-0005xn-5N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40316 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNc-0005ua-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGvNa-000swd-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:58:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:snPjHyLPWlCHpmHhJrPDR2nfj8A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:119967 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Yes, option > `extended-command-suggest-shorter' > controls this. > > Why this wasn't rolled into option > `suggest-key-bindings' (e.g. as another > possible setting) I don't know. > > Emacs didn't used to provide the `M-x > some-abbreviation' information. That was > added a release or two ago. The behavior was > what you get if you customize option > `extended-command-suggest-shorter' to nil. ... ? I don't have `extended-command-suggest-shorter' (at all), if by "option" you mean "a variable the user is supposed to fiddle with"? I have `suggest-key-bindings' tho as `t', which makes sense. GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2017-09-16, modified by Debian -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573