From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "52870@debbugs.gnu.org" <52870@debbugs.gnu.org>,
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#52870: [External] : bug#52870: Is displaying <menu-bar> bindings in describe-function useful?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:37:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54883ABCA18BB67FBBF1C729F3559@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl0dwbrd.fsf@gnus.org>
> I think saying explictly
> It can be invoked from the menu: "Help Menu" -> "Describe..."
> is a lot clearer (and helpful) for users than the current
> It is bound to C-h f, <help> f, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe>
> <describe-function>.
No, it's not. It doesn't tell you the key binding
(the menu it's in isn't the same thing). And it
tells you nothing about how to find out more about
that binding or to do something with its menu.
This ain't broke. Please don't fix it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-15 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-29 12:40 bug#52870: Is displaying <menu-bar> bindings in describe-function useful? Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-29 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 14:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-29 20:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-29 21:01 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-30 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-30 15:43 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-15 10:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-15 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-15 10:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-15 12:09 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-15 22:50 ` bug#52870: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-01-15 23:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-16 2:59 ` Drew Adams
2022-01-15 22:37 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-12-29 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-25 19:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 6:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-28 10:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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