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bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:15:51 +0300 |
> From: <miha@kamnitnik.top>
> Cc: 56508@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:26:56 +0200
>
> 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.
But we already have such an item in the same menu, just above the
offending one. Why would we need to have it twice?
- bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/07/11
- bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/07/12
- bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/12
- bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Drew Adams, 2022/07/12
- bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Drew Adams, 2022/07/12
bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu, Po Lu, 2022/07/12