bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command'

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > It's not either/or.
> 
> It should be, because we don't have infinite resources.  And because
> this is a support feature, not an editing/application feature.

Fair enough.  Emacs is a volunteer endeavor.
No volunteers for something means it won't
be done.

No one, AFAIK, is really directing troops to
be applied to this or that development effort.
So a decision about whether something would be
good to have need not consider whether effort
should be spent on it.  As usual, someone with
an itch scratches it - or not.

> > But that's a general argument.  Whether it's worth
> > adding a separate command `describe-command' is a
> > particular question and judgment.
> 
> Which is exactly what is being discussed here.  Not the general and
> theoretical questions, the specific and practical one.

The general question was raised (by you, among
others) as to the benefit of the kind of feature
described.  Whether, and how. people actually
use completion for discovery.  The answers tried
to explain the whether (yes), the how, and the
benefits.

Your response to that was to immediately say that
that's duplication, reinvention of the wheel, etc.

And to immediately start talking about effort to
be spent on it, as a way of saying we can't afford
such a frivolous waste of energy on something that's
essentially a duplication of what we already have.

You kinda got what you asked for.  And yes, I think
it's good for Emacs developers to hear that such
things are useful, and how they are, and why they
are.

And yes, some of that is far afield of this bug
thread.  That kind of thing is not new to bug
discussions...