Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The menu itself shows the keybinding, if any, that invokes the same
> > command.  Isn't that good enough?
> 
> It's not good enough for what Terje was complaining about.  Under
> XEmacs, if you open the "Buffers" menu, you can choose the buffer you
> want to go to.  But there is no keybinding equivalent to "go to buffer
> named foo.c", hence none is written.  In this case, one must learn the
> procedure by reading the manual.

So how about a feature whereby a menu item could specify a related 
command, or a list of commands?  That info could be used by various help 
facilities, like display the commands in the echo area or in a tooltip, 
etc.