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bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#139: describe-key vs. widget red tape
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:40:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> We could teach describe-key about certain common constructs, like
>> widgets and buttons, but that would be very ad hoc indeed, I think?
>
> If the action of the button is not clear from the button's label, it
> should have a help-echo string which describes that.

What the button does may be clear, but it can be somewhat convoluted to
determine precisely what function is going to end up being run.  (This
is for introspection/debugging purposes.) 

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