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Add an option to restore C-h b "Prefix Command" output |
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Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:26:46 -0700 |
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Pursuant to the 'No more "Prefix Command" in C-h m' discussion in the
emacs-devel list.
-- Bob Rogers
http://www.rgrjr.com/
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Re: bug#62279: Add an option to restore C-h b "Prefix Command" output |
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Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:33:53 +0200 |
> From: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:59:45 -0700
> CC: 62279@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:35:37 +0200
>
> > From: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
> > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:26:46 -0700
> >
> > Pursuant to the 'No more "Prefix Command" in C-h m' discussion in the
> > emacs-devel list.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > --- a/etc/NEWS
> > +++ b/etc/NEWS
> > @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ This allows the user to customize the prompt that is
> appended by
> > This is used for displaying the time and date components of
> > 'display-time-mode'.
> >
> > +** New user option 'describe-bindings-show-prefixes'.
> > +If true (the default is false), restores the "Prefix Command" entries
>
> We use "If non-nil", not "If true". And similarly for "false".
>
> Guess I've been thinking too much in Perl lately. ;-}
>
> > +in 'describe-binding' ('C-h b') output for keys that are prefixes, the
> > +details of which are shown later (regardless of this option setting).
>
> This NEWS entry should go to where the change in "C-h b"s behavior is
> described in NEWS (on emacs-29 branch), and should be reworded to tell
> users how to get the previous behavior back ("To get the previous
> behavior back, customize ...").
>
> OK. I also subordinated it to the "Keymap descriptions have changed"
> entry, since that seemed apt.
>
> > +(defcustom describe-bindings-show-prefixes nil
> > + "Non-nil shows prefixes in the output buffer of `describe-bindings'."
> > + :type 'boolean
> > + :group 'help
> > + :version "30.1")
>
> This should be "29.1". Since the behavior change was introduced in
> Emacs 29, we need to add this option in the same version.
>
> OK, I wasn't sure Lars' change actually made it into 29.
Thanks, I've now installed this (with some minor changes) on the
emacs-29 branch, and I'm therefore closing this bug.
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