bug#68929: [PATCH] Copy which-key from GNU ELPA into core

[Justin Burkett]

Thanks for the comments. I'll work on these.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 7:32 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:02:50 +0000
> > From:  Jeremy Bryant via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >
> > This patch brings the latest version of which-key from GNU ELPA into
> > Emacs core
> >
> > If suitable I will then work on the updates to user-facing aspects such as
> > manual and NEWS.
>
> This "needs work"...  Based on a very superficial reading of this huge
> file:
>
> > +;; which-key provides the minor mode which-key-mode for Emacs. The mode 
> > displays
>                                                                 ^^
> Two spaces between sentences in comments and doc strings, here and
> elsewhere.
>
> > +(defcustom which-key-idle-delay 1.0
> > +  "Delay (in seconds) for which-key buffer to popup.
> > +This variable should be set before activating `which-key-mode'.
> > +
> > +A value of zero might lead to issues, so a non-zero value is
> > +recommended
> > +(see https://github.com/justbur/emacs-which-key/issues/134)."
> > +  :group 'which-key
> > +  :type 'float)
>
> Please add a :version tag to all defcustom's and defface's.
>
>
> > +(defcustom which-key-idle-secondary-delay nil
> > +  "Once the which-key buffer shows once for a key sequence reduce
> > +the idle time to this amount (in seconds). This makes it possible
>
> The first sentence of a doc string should be a single complete
> sentence.  In this case I suggest
>
>   Number of seconds to reduce idle-timer delay after showing which-key once.
>
> > +(defcustom which-key-min-column-description-width 0
> > +  "Every column should at least have this width."
>
> This needs details, otherwise it's mot very useful.
>
> > +(defcustom which-key-unicode-correction 3
> > +  "Correction for wide unicode characters.
> > +Since we measure width in terms of the number of characters,
> > +Unicode characters that are wider than ASCII characters throw off
> > +the calculation for available width in the which-key buffer.  This
> > +variable allows you to adjust for the wide unicode characters by
> > +artificially reducing the available width in the buffer.
> > +
> > +The default of 3 means allow for the total extra width
> > +contributed by any wide unicode characters to be up to one
> > +additional ASCII character in the which-key buffer.  Increase this
> > +number if you are seeing characters get cutoff on the right side
> > +of the which-key popup."
>
> This seems to be a sub-optimal way of accounting for character widths.
> We have better ways, e.g., char-width, string-pixel-width etc.
>
> > +(defcustom which-key-dont-use-unicode nil
> > +  "If non-nil, don't use any unicode characters in default setup."
>
> This should mention the settings affected by it.
>
> Please go through all the doc strings and make sure they are
> sufficiently self-explanatory.
>
> Thanks.