bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

[emacsq via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

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E.g. take describe-function: diff

The first line:

diff is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘diff.el’.

The line describes what this entity is and where it is defined. If I want to look it up, then I have to press TAB to go to the link and then RET.

Since RET does not do anything useful on help text anyway, it's more convenient if RET goes to the source when pressed anywhere on the opening text describing the entity, without having to press TAB first.

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bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com> writes:

> Since RET does not do anything useful on help text anyway, it's more
> convenient if RET goes to the source when pressed anywhere on the
> opening text describing the entity, without having to press TAB first.

Taking the user to the manual would be a more common thing to do, so if
we're binding RET in that buffer, then that's where it should go.

But I don't think we should, because either would be confusing.  Just
use the `s' and `i' commands instead.

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bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

[Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

emacsq via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> E.g. take describe-function: diff
>
> The first line:
>
> diff is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘diff.el’.
>
> The line describes what this entity is and where it is defined. If I want to look it up, then I have to press TAB to go to the link and then RET.
>
> Since RET does not do anything useful on help text anyway, it's more
> convenient if RET goes to the source when pressed anywhere on the
> opening text describing the entity, without having to press TAB first.

Since Emacs 28.1, you can press "s" in the *Help* buffer to go directly
to the source.