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bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.
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From: |
Juri Linkov |
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Subject: |
bug#10945: Can't search through help menu. |
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Date: |
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:56:30 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> emacs -Q
>> C-h ? ; brings up the help menu
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>> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog":
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>> C-x ; intending C-x o
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>> The menu disappears. This isn't friendly.
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> We can now search that window using `C-h ? C-s', and it switches to
> the *Metahelp* window. This functionality was added in this comit:
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> 956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655)
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> `C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though.
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> Is that good enough here?
Maybe help-for-help should use the minibuffer for reading commands
instead of using explicit read-key-sequence? This would allow
switching to the *Metahelp* window with 'C-x o'.