Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'

[Stefan Kangas]

Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>    R       Show given manual
>>>
>>> For w above you say "a given command" maybe these two
>>> should match?
>>
>> Eli suggested "Show specified command", which I think is okay.  I'm not
                       ^^^^^^^^^ specific
>> sure they should match as they are far apart, and IMHO they read a bit
>> better this way.
>
> I prefer the word "specified" too.  I don't think their
> distance makes any difference.  I'd used specified in both places.

OK, I'm going with:

    "Show which key runs a specific command"
    "Show a specific manual"

>>>>    S       Find symbol in Info manual for current programming language

Eli suggested "Show description of symbol in pertinent manual".

> I was just referring to it use in "Debugging GNU Emacs".  I
> think that should be "Debugging Emacs".  The "GNU" should stay
> in "(GNU General Public License)" and also in the warranty
> description.

Oh, right.  Yes, that makes more sense; removed.