Re: Keybinding styles

[André A . Gomes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> [...] So all that's needed is to add a feature to info.el to display a
> different set of keys given some state variable.
>
> Of course, the printed manual will still show only the standard key
> bindings, and so will the HTML-formatted manual we put on the Web
> site.

I agree that the printed and HTML-formatted manual must be "standard".
The suggestion of using a state variable also makes sense.

But I brought the subject from another perspective.  When a user runs
(info-emacs-manual), shouldn't it reflect Emacs' state?  Concretely, if
I rebind C-x C-f to something else, the manual should tell me.  It seems
to me like a missed opportunity.

In fact, there's work done in a similar vein.  When users read the
tutorial, they're warned them about rebounded keys.  To my mind, the
same should happen with the manual.


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André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"