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Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts |
Date: |
14 Apr 2004 12:04:58 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
> Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:
> > I have the following use for the C-h bindings from the minibuffer:
> > C-h b to describe the bindings
I also use C-h k quite often.
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> I think it would be bad to have F1 and C-h be sometimes the same and
> sometimes different.
Agree.
> 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
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- 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 <=
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- 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