From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 06:36:45 +0300 Message-ID: References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> <200605220256.k4M2uLIC026496@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148269027 23910 80.91.229.2 (22 May 2006 03:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 03:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 22 05:37:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1E6-0002NZ-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 05:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1E5-0002Q2-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1Dv-0002PD-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:36:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1Dv-0002O4-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:36:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi1Du-0002Np-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fi1Ho-0003mE-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id ITU33340; Mon, 22 May 2006 06:36:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-37-250.inter.net.il [80.230.37.250]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DKR33751 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 22 May 2006 06:36:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200605220256.k4M2uLIC026496@jane.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 21 May 2006 21:56:21 -0500 (CDT)) 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:55002 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:56:21 -0500 (CDT) > From: Luc Teirlinck > CC: eliz@gnu.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > ~C-h p' eventually leads to the commentary section of the packages' > source file, which is supposed to be documentation of the package. > For many features, this is the only documentation they have. So `C-h p' > is an essential complement to the Emacs manual, which has not enough > room to document all features. Yes, and that's why "C-h p" is in the Help menu. The question was not whether it belongs to the general category of documentation-related features (it does), the question was whether it should be under "Search Documentation" submenu. The other items in that submenu are very different from "C-h p", mainly in what they search and what they find.