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Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
From: |
Stefan Reichör |
Subject: |
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:39:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) |
Hi Kim!
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Here's an idea: Use the normal binding for `describe-function' (`C-h f',
>> or `F1 f') and either have it directly pop up the help for the currently
>> executing command (i.e., don't prompt for a function name as usual), or
>> else prompt as usual, but set the default value for the prompt to the
>> function currently executing command (so that you'd typically use `C-h f
>> RET' to get help in the situation you describe). Since users will probably
>> be used to `C-h f' to get function help in other contexts, it should be
>> easier to remember in the minibuffer too.
>
> That would be ok.
>
> Other possibilities are:
>
> C-h . => help at point
> This could behave differently if point is in minibuffer, as
> there is usually no specific help "at point" in there.
>
> C-h m => mode specific help (minibuffer specific help)
> I often use this to get help specific to the current context,
> so extending this to understand "minibuffer context" seems
> logical to me.
>
> C-h C-h => maybe we don't need the "help menu" when operating on the
> minibuffer
I am fine with all of these bindings.
My ranking would be:
C-h .
C-h f
C-h m
C-h C-h
What do others think?
- Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts,
Stefan Reichör <=
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/15
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/16
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Masatake YAMATO, 2004/04/13
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/14
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/14