Re: Keybinding styles

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com>
> Cc: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>,  theophilusx@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:40:59 +0300
> 
> 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.

Isn't that what I said above?