From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu. 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[64.90.62.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.18.5); Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:49:29 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: dreamhost X-Chief-Callous: 1e822a0950187ca5_1573681768822_582977387 X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1573681768822:217478340 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1573681768822 Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a44.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a44.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753A085224; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:49:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=linkov.net; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=linkov.net; bh=kgRMQDDDiaY3xG01sj5UqhhMuCc=; b= 1wIYqhGSMdiLbRlEvXatyheFpVc6U7w12/gc6CTbC9jRuKPGjqQmi86azdWHwQUN 43CjlaFXYMu4KCaYWG0PLPZLjtfEfARwpHYUIWXbywYmxT3pJxxLaH7Wnlg14sc0 UoN0IGp5fffELruwDquMgnqBDiZrmrFCVSuijBmRa7U= Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (m91-129-102-1.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.102.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a44.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA4B48522A; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:49:19 -0800 (PST) X-DH-BACKEND: pdx1-sub0-mail-a44 In-Reply-To: <87v9s3w7ym.fsf@marxist.se> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:24:49 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171504 Archived-At: >> 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'.