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Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'
From: |
Howard Melman |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help' |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:27:17 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (darwin) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> I have attached a rough draft for what an improved version of might look
> like. It would be great to get some feedback.
I think this is a good improvement. I'd like to see some of
the help text normalized to be more consistent. Here's an
attempt at that, though it could us another pass too.
Basic Help
m Display documentation of current major and minor modes and their
commands.
x COMMAND Display documentation of the command.
k KEYS Display documentation of the key sequence.
f FUNCTION Display documentation of the function.
v VARIABLE Display documentation and value of the variable.
o SYMBOL Display documentation and value of the function or variable.
c KEYS Display the command name bound to the key sequence.
b Display all bindings of commands to keys.
w COMMAND Display which keys are bound to the command.
. Display any available local help at point.
Documentation
t Start the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial.
r Show the Emacs manual in Info mode.
F COMMAND Show the Emacs manual's section for the command.
K KEYS Show the Emacs manual's section for the command bound to KEYS.
i Show the Info documentation reader listing all available manuals.
S SYMBOL Show the section of the relevant Info manual for the symbol.
SEARCHING AND PACKAGES
a PATTERN Show commands whose name matches the PATTERN (a list of words or a
regexp). See also the `apropos' command.
d PATTERN Show a list of functions, variables, and other items whose
documentation matches the PATTERN (a list of words or a regexp).
P PACKAGE Describe the given Emacs Lisp package.
p TOPIC Find packages matching a given topic keyword.
OTHER
e Go to the *Messages* buffer which logs echo-area messages.
l Show last 300 input keystrokes (lossage).
C CODING Describe the given coding system, or RET for current ones.
I METHOD Describe a specific input method, or RET for current.
L LANG-ENV Describes a specific language environment, or RET for current.
s Display contents of current syntax table, plus explanations.
g Display information about the GNU project.
n Display news of recent Emacs changes.
h Display the HELLO file which illustrates various scripts.
C-a Information about Emacs.
C-c Emacs copying permission (GNU General Public License).
C-d Instructions for debugging GNU Emacs.
C-e External packages and information about Emacs.
C-f Emacs FAQ.
C-m How to order printed Emacs manuals.
C-n News of recent Emacs changes.
C-o Emacs ordering and distribution information.
C-p Info about known Emacs problems.
C-s Search forward \"help window\".
C-t Emacs TODO list.
C-w Information on absence of warranty for GNU Emacs."
--
Howard
- Re: Consistent face for keys in *Help* and `substitute-command-keys', (continued)
Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/21
- RE: [External] : Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Drew Adams, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/21
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/22
Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help',
Howard Melman <=
Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Yuri Khan, 2021/02/22