Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:03:57 +0200
>> 
>> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> 
>> >> What about using the "C-x 4" prefix?  We could define a new prefix map
>> >> bound to "C-x 4 h", then have all the bindings in *Help* be in the map
>> >> prefixed by "C-x 4 h".  For example, "C-x 4 h I" will run a command
>> >> which will produce the same effect as help-goto-lispref-info, using
>> >> the current *Help* window as its starting point.
>> 
>> If you are talking about help-map and help-mode-map, the help-map is already
>> bound to C-h, so you could then add help-mode-map on a 'h' key in help-mode as I
>> tested while I working with this. It gives you C-h h l for
>> help-goto-lispref-info which is one key shorter and it is easier to type then
>> C-x 4 h since you can just tapp 'h' twice instead of using another key.
>
> C-h map is quite full, and "C-h h" is already taken, so this proposal
> is a no-go.
>
> I suggested "C-x 4" because it is a prefix we use for many "do stuff
> in other window" commands, and this is a logical extension of that
> repertoire.  "C-x 4" is also convenient to type, and people who, like
> me, are used to invoke many "other-window" commands will get used to
> it instantly.  Most importantly, "C-x 4 h" is free for grabbing.

Yes, I understand that.

I personally find anything involving numbers to be slower to type then non-number
stuff, but might be me. However free for grabbing sounds like an unbeatable
argument in Emacs community, so sure; I said earlier I don't care personally, I
will anyway rebind it myself, so it was just a suggestion to rebind
hello-world-file to something else :).