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bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h)
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h) |
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Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:17:35 -0400 |
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> > >> C-h g -> About the GNU project
> > >> C-h G -> Emacs copying permission (GNU General Public License)
> > >> C-h C-c -> Contributing
> > > IMO the best proposal so far, but Lars didn't want to move the GPL
> > > from 'C-h C-c' so that part unfortunately makes it a non-starter.
> >
> > I'm not dead set against it -- it's not like these are commands that
> > people use heavily. But that cuts the other way, too -- making this new
> > command mnemonic isn't really that important, either, since I'd assume
> > that people would be accessing them via `C-h C-h' and then paging down,
> > entering whatever key it says they should use. I.e., nobody's
> > remembering these keystrokes anyway.
> >
> > Perhaps Eli has an opinion here?
> How about not giving it a key binding at all? Why is a key binding
> important in this case? It's not like people will want to read that
> section twice a day.
I agree. Given that key bindings are somewhat scarce, it's good
to avoid using them up for commands that don't really need one.
However, it may be necessary to give it a key binding
so it can appear in the Help menu. And having it appear there
is useful.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: [External] : bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Drew Adams, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/01
- bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h), Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/01
bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h),
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