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Re: info-lookup-symbol key binding


From: Jesper Harder
Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol key binding
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:38:41 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I changed these bindings to make them more systematic overall.
> I think that is important to help people learn them.

I appreciate the reasoning, and in Lisp mode 'S' for "symbol" is
probably more mnemonic than `C-h C-i'.

But info-lookup-symbol is extremely useful in a lot of other modes --
for example Perl, LaTeX, Octave, Texinfo and C (libc) where Info files
are available (see the end of info-look.el for more examples).

For a Lisp programmer S(ymbol) is of course an obvious mnemonic, but I
don't think it's very intuitive for someone editing, say, a LaTeX file.

A possibility could be to swap the key bindings for `describe-syntax'
and `info-lookup-symbol'.  `C-h s' (lower case s) is much easier to
type, and I don't believe `describe-syntax' is used nearly as frequently
as `info-lookup-symbol' (I still personally prefer `C-h C-i', though).

-- 
Cheers,
Jesper Harder





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