From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command," Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:27:24 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87wo353f77.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83ft9woo68.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo377wxp.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18281"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 00:30:53 2020 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 1jvTRt-0004fW-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:30:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58878 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvTRs-00074F-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvTQX-0005Qa-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:48153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvTQT-0007Km-VC; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:29:28 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.103.18 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-103-18.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.103.18]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C32D4240002; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:29:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 14 Jul 2020 01:55:10 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.193; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay1-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/14 17:02:23 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:252957 Archived-At: >> This means that after binding the current ctl-x-4-map in Emacs core >> to the other-window command, 'C-h k C-x 4' will display the help for >> that command, not for the whole sequence 'C-h k C-x 4 C-f'. > > I don't think we can/should make `C-h k` read all of `C-x 4 C-f`, indeed. > But maybe we could make the following work: `C-x 4 C-h k C-f`. Would it be more expected for `C-x 4 C-h k C-f` to show the help buffer about `C-f` (forward-char) in another window? The prefix `C-x 4` says "show the output of the next command in another window" where the next command is `C-h k C-f`.