From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command' Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:06:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <835z2o4fes.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33931"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 46627@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 17:07:41 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1lDUnF-0008i2-V1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:07:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUnE-0004y2-Vv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUmd-0004BM-CW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUmc-0005uG-E1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUmc-0005ER-8D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:07:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46627 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 46627-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46627.161383718120063 (code B ref 46627); Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46627) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Feb 2021 16:06:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52675 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUlx-0005DX-0U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54914) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUlv-0005DL-Mf for 46627@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:06:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUlq-0005UZ-30; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lDUlj-0002ZZ-Tl; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:06:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:42:50 -0600) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200439 Archived-At: There seems to be little difference between the proposed describe-command command and the existing describe-function command. Whatever the former could do, the latter already does. Am I missing something? If not, what benefit justifies even the small cost in complexity (of UI, of manual, and of code) of adding describe-command? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)