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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 56508@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:04:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnNDh=pE=XiPYFJwjyV6HfnGOrXMJ4iXXSHyVnEuzGtSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sfn6xzhf.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> <Shrug> it's a matter of personal opinion, so let's not argue about
> that.

Sure.

> The important question is: does that single menu item do any harm?

Not that one item in and of itself, no, but overall the "Help" menu does
feel overwhelming.  Anything we could remove from it would help, and to
my mind this is an obvious candidate.

> Our current stopgap is to tell more in the help-echo (which you for
> some reason ignore in your criticism).

The help-echo and the menu item text could just switch places, and it
would be an improvement, IMHO.

(FWIW, I couldn't find anything about "Mule" in the Emacs manual outside
of "ps-mule.el" and `(emacs) MS-DOS'.)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12  2:04 bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12  2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12  3:16   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12  8:26     ` miha--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 10:10       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:14         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 13:31         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 13:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 12:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 13:37       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 13:54         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 14:04       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-07-12 14:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 15:25         ` Drew Adams
2022-07-12 15:20       ` Drew Adams
2022-07-12 13:35   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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