From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help menu (was: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132333573 4418 80.91.229.6 (18 Nov 2005 17:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 18 18:06:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ed9gb-0005GZ-00 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:06:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed9ga-0001gy-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed9bv-0007Tl-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed9bt-0007Sk-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ed9bs-0007SO-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ed9bs-0007Oi-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ed9b5-0007Vf-5Z; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:28 -0500 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46238 Archived-At: type a key sequence (e.g. `C-M-s') choose a menu item (e.g. [menu-bar files open-file]) click on a scroll bar click on the mode line click in the minibuffer click on an Emacs-related name in a buffer: apropos is called click anywhere else in a buffer: its modes are described It sounds like this does everything that C-x k does except in the case of clicking on the buffer contents. Is that right? Help is generally provided using `describe-key' and the Emacs online manual (via `Info-goto-emacs-key-command-node'). If no entry is found in the index of the Emacs manual, then the manual is searched from the beginning for literal occurrences of KEY. I don't quite understand. How does it decide which one of these to do? Does it always try each of them?