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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>, 52074@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52074: 29.0.50; Add key binding for find-library
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:00:54 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad138a4baf70733357e3b5493dfebff2@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7c2vx2p.fsf@gnus.org>

On 2021-11-24 20:20, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org> writes:
>> I picked this key binding for mnemonic reasons (h -> help, l ->
>> library) and because 'C-h C-l' seems to be unbound in emacs -Q.
> 
> Hm...  Finding a library isn't exactly a help command, so I think it
> would be somewhat confusing to put it there.  But I don't have a good
> suggestion for where to put otherwise.

Library commentaries are one of the primary sources of documentation
in Emacs, so I think it's pretty help-related.

FWIW I use this same binding, and in my mind it makes excellent sense
to use C-h C-l for `find-library' if you also have:

C-h C-v for `find-variable'
C-h C-f for `find-function'
C-h C-k for `find-function-on-key'

All of which feel (to me) analogous to C-h v, C-h f, and C-h k: Without
the Ctrl modifier you view the docstrings; with it you view the code.

(Admittedly C-h l is unconnected, but that hasn't bothered me.  
Following
my pattern that would probably be bound to `finder-commentary', but I'm
not suggesting we move `view-lossage' elsewhere.)

I guess my main point is that I do think of *all* of these things as
help-related, as I consider reading the code as just the next step up
from reading the docstrings.


-Phil






  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-24 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-24  6:54 bug#52074: 29.0.50; Add key binding for find-library Manuel Uberti via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-24  7:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24  7:26   ` Manuel Uberti via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-24 17:16     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 18:29       ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-24 18:55       ` bug#52074: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-24 12:00   ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-11-24 18:21 ` Drew Adams
2021-11-24 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-11-24 21:06 ` Drew Adams

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