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Re: No more "Prefix Command" in C-h m
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: No more "Prefix Command" in C-h m |
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Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:38:38 +0200 |
> From: Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:19:37 -0700
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> A while ago, I noticed that C-h m no longer shows keys bound to
You mean "C-h b", I suppose.
> keymaps as "Prefix Command" along with their siblings when I almost
> clobbered such a prefix when looking for an unused key sequence. I was
> about to submit a bug report when I noticed the comment in the code that
> said this was a design choice. The commit was a5d79fcfe83e by Lars
> Ingebrigtsen on 2021-11-01. Lars, would you please tell us why?
He already did, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02399.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg02402.html
Bottom line: they were deemed unnecessary, since the key bindings that
use the prefix also show the prefix.
We could add a user option to get that back, if we think people will
want that sometimes.