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bug#6436: 23.2; C-h C-h incomprehensible to new users
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#6436: 23.2; C-h C-h incomprehensible to new users |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:41:22 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
> The integrated help in emacs is a great tool for beginners to learn
> emacs, and C-h d, C-h k, C-h m and C-h t are extremely useful.
>
> Sadly the sheer number of help options made it extremely hard for me
> in the beginning to find out what help I really needed. Most times is
> was simply C-h d or C-h k.
>
> So I’d suggest to seperate the help options into two parts: “needed often by
> most people” and “needed only in very specific situations”.
>
> Then just put the first at the beginning of the help output (common help
> options) and in a next paragraph add the rest (advanced help options).
>
> That should make it far easier for beginners to find the help topic they need
> (and I can safely tell people “if you need help, just type C-h C-h”).
(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
attention yet.)
I think the difficult thing here would be to figure out what help
commands are needed often and which ones are more obscure. For
instance, I use `C-h f' all the time, and I never use `C-h d', so I
think it just varies.
I don't think there's any really obscure ones until we get to the
`C-h C-' help stuff (like `C-h C-w'), and those are already deempathised
by being last. So I think the current alphabetical organisation makes
the most sense in the long term, and I'm closing this bug report.
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- bug#6436: 23.2; C-h C-h incomprehensible to new users,
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