From: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:15:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k5pfpl1z.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Ijt9A-0000Ee-Ty@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> On the contrary, C-u is not friendly to newbies. So maybe a better
> solution is to add/redefine two new bindings, `C-h c' and `C-h o' for
> commands and options, respectively.
>
> It is a mistake to try to help newbies by providing an even larger
> number of help commands for them. So this idea is self-defeating.
For me, C-u is perfectly okay !
> By the way, C-h c is already a help command, and a very basic one,
> which we will not change.
I mentioned it in my previous post:
,----
| [Currently `C-h c' is binded to describe-key-briefly, which i find
| myself nearly never use..]
`----
--
William
http://williamxu.net9.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 19:06 help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands Drew Adams
2007-10-20 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-20 14:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-20 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 2:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 2:46 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-21 2:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 5:25 ` William Xu
2007-10-21 6:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-22 9:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-22 9:15 ` William Xu [this message]
2007-10-21 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-23 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
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