bug#75634: closed (29.1; Clearer prompt in info-lookup-change-mode)

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regarding 29.1; Clearer prompt in info-lookup-change-mode
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> 29.1; Clearer prompt in info-lookup-change-mode
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> Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:02:59 -0500
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> I was reading emacs-devel in gnus and while reading a patch
> I wanted to lookup named-let in the manual.  I ran
> info-lookup-symbol but instead of having info open as usual
> I was confronted with the prompt "Use symbol help mode: ".
> My completion system (vertico) showed me a bunch of elisp
> symbols, though it didn't quite register that they all ended
> in "-mode" and I was wondering why named-let wasn't the
> symbol at the top of the list as would normally happen.
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> I now understand the reason for this. It needs to find the
> right manual and normally looks that up based on the major
> mode, but gnus-article-mode wasn't of help here, so it was
> asking me which major mode to use; but I didn't understand
> the prompt and think it could be improved.
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> The prompt is in info-lookup-change-mode and the "symbol" is
> either "symbol" or "file" depending on how the lookup
> command was invoked.  I think something like "Major-mode to
> lookup %s with: " would be much clearer.  It would be even
> better if the prompt could include the actual string that
> would be looked up ("named-let" in my example).
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> Howard
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> In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0,
> Carbon Version 165 AppKit 2113.6) of 2023-08-08 built on
> Mac-1691500888998.local
> Repository revision: e173249a143cee72d59ae78c4e11038512f5a00f
> Repository branch: 29.1-mac-10.0
> Windowing system distributor 'Apple Inc.', version 13.7.2
> System Description:  macOS 13.7.2
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> > From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:19:44 -0500
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> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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> > > But if you prefer this choice of words, then how about
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> > >   Major mode whose documentation to search for this %s
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> > I prefer "manuals" to "documentation" but otherwise this is
> > fine.
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> Thanks, installed on the emacs-30 branch, and closing the bug.
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