Re: Consistent face for keys in *Help* and `substitute-command-keys'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 02:26:27 -0500
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> It's just to make them alphabetical.
> >
> > That's what I thought, but then "q" is out of order, isn't it?
> 
> Sure.  I left it as it seemed to have been intentionally placed at the
> end -- the quit command is "special".  But I don't have any strong
> preferences here, so please let me know if you want something changed.

Up to you, it's really a nit that isn't worth arguing about.

> > I'm not sure it's a good idea.  "M-x foobar" is not a key sequence in
> > the sense we use it for this feature, I think.  This feature is not
> > about displaying any key sequence in any context, it's about
> > displaying them in the context of help-related text.
> 
> My thinking here is that the face should separate "anything that the
> user could type to run a command" from the surrounding body text.  In
> this sense, there is no strong difference between an unbound command and
> an actual keybinding.  It just seems more helpful.
> 
> I don't see any obvious problems with this approach, but perhaps there
> is something that I'm overlooking.
> 
> BTW, there was a bug in the above code where only the "M-x" part was
> fontified, now fixed:

Fine with me, thanks.