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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"400@debbugs.gnu.org" <400@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#400: [External] : Re: bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:56:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488521AA8F4D1A98A892B78F3809@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgr17fwc.fsf@gnu.org>

> > Maybe we are miscommunicating.  I mean that if we add a new command
> > `customize-describe-variable', it won't complicate `describe-
> > variable'.
> 
> But then you usurp the "C-h v" key binding for another command, and
> the user cannot invoke the original Help command easily?

Agreed.  `C-h v' should stay `describe-variable',
and its behavior should remain the same as always.

All that's needed is to provide the option name
as default value, when at point (not when the
cursor is on something else that makes sense as
a default).





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-12 16:27 bug#400: 23.0.60; C-h v should pick up lispified name in Customize Drew Adams
2008-06-12 21:19 ` martin rudalics
2008-06-12 21:28   ` Drew Adams
2020-09-06 12:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-06 14:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 16:33     ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-10-20 21:02     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-20 21:27       ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21  6:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 16:15           ` Drew Adams
2021-10-21  3:09       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-21  3:35         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21  3:38           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-21  5:01             ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21  7:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 16:49             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 14:29               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-22 17:13                 ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21  4:26         ` Drew Adams
2021-10-21  7:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21  6:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 15:47         ` Howard Melman
2021-10-21 17:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22  2:36             ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22  6:38               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 15:38                 ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22 17:22                   ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-21 16:34         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 17:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 17:50             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 18:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-21 19:45                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22  6:05                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22  8:12                     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 10:49                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22 16:56                     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-10-22  3:30           ` Howard Melman
2021-10-22 16:51             ` bug#400: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-23 18:25               ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-06 17:06   ` Drew Adams

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