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RE: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:45:02 -0700

        I don't really care strongly to see all the bindings. But
        how to know which
        bindings are the most important to display?

    When there are a lot of bindings, perhaps it would be better to display
    just how many there are: "30 key bindings".

    Wouldn't that be more convenient than a many-line list of lots of key
    bindings?

Yes. And Kim's suggestion of using "..." was also a good one, whether or not
the "..." is a button to display the complete list (i.e. `where-is').

My vote is to just use "...", possibly with "(12 more)" appended. After the
release, we can think about making "..." be a button that executes
`where-is'.

The only thing I feel strongly about is to have the buffer text itself be
within a 70-char length limit (or some other number), so there is a
reasonable, consistent buffer width.






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