Re: Suggestion: Simple way to make conditional key bindings.

[Robert J. Chassell]

   >     ... C-h k C-y will report yank or yank-with-properties
   >     depending on the actual function taken if you hit C-y. ....

   > .... sometimes it will be better for C-h k to give the doc string
   > for the specific command that will be executed.

   Agreed.  But in the example he gave I think that a docstring that
   describes the range of behavior rather than the specific command is
   better, because you can't expect the user to know that the current
   string is "special".

Yes:  the user may not know or remember the range.  (At the moment,
for example, I am in the middle of a long airplane flight and too
exhausted to remember much, even though some of the time I am quite
good.)

At the same time, for this sort of command, which operates differently
in different contexts, the docstring should describe what the command
will do specifically in this situation.

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