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> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:19:02 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC:  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I recently got some comments about the help menu in CVS Emacs from a 
> long term Emacs user and fan (+15 y usage). One of the comments were 
> that there are too many things in the help menu.

For some value of ``too many'': we have 17 entries there.  Why is this
bad?  Each entry can be useful in specific situations.