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Manual: always also list function names not just keystrokes


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Manual: always also list function names not just keystrokes
Date: 03 Apr 2001 20:56:26 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

In the early parts of Emacs' texinfo manual, in summaries of several
commands, we see the name of the function listed along with what keys
invoke it.  This is good:
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`C-a'
     Move to the beginning of the line (`beginning-of-line').
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However in a few later parts,
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`C-\'
     Enable or disable use of the selected input method.
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The function's name isn't mentioned until a varying number of
paragraphs down in the page.

Shouldn't this be standardized, hopefully with the function's name
right on the first line:
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`C-\'                    (`toggle-input-method')
     Enable or disable use of the selected input method.
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The idea is we don't want to emphasize only memorizing keystrokes. [The
Specify Coding node of the manual has several instances of this
problem.]
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