bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu

[miha]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>>>     5. "Describe Coding System Briefly" under "Describe" -- is this
>>>        useful?  I just get this cryptic message here:
>>>
>>>        F[U:],K[U:],T[U:],P>[=:],P<[=:], default F[U:],P>[U:],P<[U:]
>>
>> It's completely understandable here: File encoding, Keyboard encoding,
>> Terminal encoding, Process encoding (input and output).
>
> I don't doubt that you understand it, but I don't think many new users
> will.  I don't understand almost any of it myself.  For example, what
> does "=:" mean?  And what does "default" mean?
>
> This looks like a power-users tool, not like something that belongs in
> the help menu, to me.

Perhaps we could replace it with "Describe Coding System", that is, the
describe-current-coding-system command, which shows an easier to
understand *Help* buffer.

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