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Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer
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Arthur Miller |
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Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:36:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:31:59 +0300
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> > am not sure if C-h M-h is the right, but that's just a detail.
>>
>> This would be a nice command. But why it's limited only to help-window?
>> It could allow reading and running the key sequences in any next-window.
>
> Please, no unnecessary generalizations of this kind. Or at least not
> to cater to this particular request. I want a _help_ command, not
> just a prefix that runs any command in the other window. because, for
> starters, what if the *Help* buffer is not currently on display at
> all?
The suggested patch will send C-g (abort the original request), so nothing will
happen. I think it would be confusing to work on a non-visible buffer, so that
is why call get-buffer-window.
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/23
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/24
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/24
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/24
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer,
Arthur Miller <=
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/24
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/24
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/25
- Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/25