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bug#50881: [External] : bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*"
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#50881: [External] : bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:52:38 +0000 |
> > That's the problem with thinking your personal preferences are
> > definitely good for everyone else. They aren't.
>
> This is not a personal preference. I looked through the eyes of
> a beginner who types 'C-h C-h' to get help, and the first thing
> the user sees is that parens are highlighted on the first line:
>
> (Type <PageDown> or <PageUp> to scroll, C-s to search, or q to exit.)
>
> This is what we trying to tell the user with this information:
>
> Look, it's very important that the first paren on the first line
> matches its closing paren, so we highlighted these parens for you.
Mountain out of a mole hill?
Or maybe the new-user takeaway is that Emacs highlights
matching parens by default. ("Hey, that can be useful!")
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, (continued)
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: [External] : bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Drew Adams, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/29
- bug#50881: [External] : bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/30