From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Schierl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h k does not work with M-o Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:03:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: schierlm@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180472649 15384 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2007 21:04:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:04:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 29 23:04:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ht8rI-0003Si-AX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 23:04:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8rH-0008QZ-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8qs-0007Rs-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8qq-0007Ma-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8qq-0007M2-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ht8qq-00052g-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8qo-00082o-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 23:03:30 +0200 Original-Received: from p549bc0e4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.155.192.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 23:03:30 +0200 Original-Received: from schierlm by p549bc0e4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 23:03:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p549bc0e4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71962 Archived-At: On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:59:18 +0000 (UTC), Robert J. Chassell wrote: > > When I do C-h k M-o I see a line beginning with Set face: > > M-o is a prefix key. ... > > That is correct. It would be nice if describe-key (`C-h k') provided > an error message (after a suitable and adjustable time out) for this. > This would help the novices and the foolish, but not anyone else. (I > do not have time to propose a fix.) While we are at it: When pressing M-o C-h a list of all shortcuts starting with M-o appears. But when having pressed C-h k M-o there is no way from there to show this list, C-h k M-o C-h does not work as one might expect. Michael