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which-key (was: Adding a "quick-help" menu)
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Stefan Monnier |
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which-key (was: Adding a "quick-help" menu) |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:53:17 -0400 |
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>> Yes, but just like there is a difference between auto-completion and
>> tab-completion, there is a difference to be considered here.
> for me the main difference to all other help facilities is,
> that there is zero cognitive burden: It only pops up when I
> hit a prefix key and then don't know what to do.
BTW, AFAICT there are fundamentally two differences between the `C-h`
trick and `which-key-mode`:
A) `C-h` needs an explicit user action, rather than just waiting
a shot time. Both options have their advantages.
B) `C-h` displays the result in a less sophisticated way than
`which-key`.
Regarding (A), in order to avoid the potential occasional annoyance of
the which-key popup, which also solving the discoverability problem of
`C-h`, I guess we should simply change the "echo keystrokes"
functionality so instead of just displaying "C-x-" it could display
something like "C-x- [Hit C-h for help]".
And regarding (B), it seems to be a small matter of merging the two
codebases so that `C-h` and `which-key` get the same display.
Stefan
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, (continued)
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/16
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Gregor Zattler, 2022/09/17
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/17
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/17
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/17
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/17
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Visuwesh, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Gregor Zattler, 2022/09/18
- which-key (was: Adding a "quick-help" menu),
Stefan Monnier <=
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- Re: which-key, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/18
- Re: which-key, Stefan Monnier, 2022/09/18
- Re: which-key, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/18
- Re: which-key, Gregor Zattler, 2022/09/18
- Re: which-key, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/18