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

[JD Smith]

With my original fix of just allowing buffer-local binding to appear in help-quick, I fully intended to disable most of the global bindings (I don’t need a reminder of C-x C-f) and expected it to be therefore  a smaller and easier to parse mode-specific list.  

Since the user has to take the initiative to modify `help-quick-sections’ in my simple approach, I do not see “loss of global bindings” as a concern; that’s a feature, not a bug, from my perspective.

On Jan 10, 2024, at 10:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

From: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:46:22 -0500
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 68236@debbugs.gnu.org,
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>

But what about instead of a separate command to remember, just creating an (optional) section in the existing help-quick popup, for local commands?  where-is-internal would consult the global keymap for the global commands, and the current buffer’s keymap for the locals.

I think we should be careful not to add too much to what these
commands display, since otherwise we'd reinvent "C-h b" again.

The whole purpose of help-quick is to present a small list of the most
useful commands and their bindings, and do it in a small window.  As
soon as the buffer is long enough to require scrolling, I think we
will have lost.