Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:31:02 +0000
>
> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>>> - I think we should use `help-for-help-header' for the headlines, not
>>>>   capitalize them, and align them with :align-to.
>>>
>>> That can be done.
>>
>> I note that you did not use the `help-for-help-header' face for the
>> headlines.  They are also manually aligned, not with :align-to.
>>
>> I tried with this naive patch, which means that alignment is off, but
>> the results look promising to me:
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
>> index 1cfd044db8..3979d772bc 100644
>> --- a/lisp/help.el
>> +++ b/lisp/help.el
>> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ help-quick
>>                          (concat
>>                           (car section)
>>                           (make-string (- width (length (car section))) ?\s))
>> -                        'face 'bold)
>> +                        'face 'help-for-help-header)
>>                        ,@(mapcar (lambda (ent)
>>                                    (format fmt
>>                                            (propertize
>>
>> In any case, I don't think using the face `bold' is best here, as that
>> makes this hard to customize.  I'd prefer a proper defface (whether it
>> inherits from `help-for-help-header' by default or not).
>
> FWIW I totally agree, and that was just forgetfulness on my part.  As to
> :align-to, I believe I already explained that it was difficult to make
> use of the property considering the manner in which the buffer is
> prepared.

Thanks for doing this!

The format notwithstanding, C-h q could also be mentioned in the
TUTORIAL, no?

I can suggest a patch for it and then do the translation at least for
the Greek version.

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