bug#68236: [PATCH] help.el: allow help-quick to use local commands/quick-sections

[JD Smith]

On Jan 4, 2024, at 2:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

Please describe in more detail how would people use this for their
personal "quick help", because I don't think I understand well enough
what you have in mind.

For example, an org user may

(add-to-list 'help-quick-sections

             '("Org"

      (org-ctrl-c-star . "Compute table/change heading ")

      (org-ctrl-c-ret . "Table hline/insert heading")))

so that from org-buffers, C-h C-q adds a new section:

Org                                  

C-c *   Compute table/change heading 

C-c RET Table hline/insert heading   

Most likely users willing to customize `help-quick-sections’ would remove existing sections with commands they know well.  

In any case, such a change will need suitable changes for
documentation.

Do you mean documentation for the `help-quick-sections' variable?  How about turning this into a defcustom?  This would allow more advanced users to fully customize what “quick help” they want.