From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 10945@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:56:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8xfo66x.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9s3w7ym.fsf@marxist.se> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:24:49 +0100")
>> emacs -Q
>> C-h ? ; brings up the help menu
>>
>> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog":
>>
>> C-x ; intending C-x o
>>
>> The menu disappears. This isn't friendly.
>
> We can now search that window using `C-h ? C-s', and it switches to
> the *Metahelp* window. This functionality was added in this comit:
>
> 956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655)
>
> `C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though.
>
> Is that good enough here?
Maybe help-for-help should use the minibuffer for reading commands
instead of using explicit read-key-sequence? This would allow
switching to the *Metahelp* window with 'C-x o'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-13 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-05 10:07 bug#10945: Can't search through help menu Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-04 15:43 ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 15:54 ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 16:05 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-04 16:59 ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-04 18:10 ` Bartosz Duszel
2017-05-05 2:48 ` npostavs
2017-05-05 3:40 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-05 12:12 ` npostavs
2019-11-01 22:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-13 20:56 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-11-14 18:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-11-18 21:18 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-23 3:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 18:23 ` Juri Linkov
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