bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Juri.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 22:56:30 +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
> >> emacs -Q
> >> C-h ?       ; brings up the help menu

> >> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog":

> >> C-x         ; intending C-x o

> >> The menu disappears.  This isn't friendly.

> > 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:

> > 956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655)

> > `C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though.

> > 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'.

This sounds like an excellent idea.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).