bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command'

[Drew Adams]

> In your relentless promotion of your own packages
> and solutions, you completely miss the point of
> what I wrote.

No, you missed the point.  Under discussion is
helping vanilla Emacs to let `M-x' be a better
"means of discovery" of commands.  It's already
being used sometimes as a means of discovery.
People in the thread have pointed that out: they
sometimes use vanilla Emacs `M-x' for discovery.

Your point was that Emacs _never meant_ for `M-x'
to be a means of discovery.  I pointed out that
sometimes things created for purpose X also get
used for purpose Y.  I pointed to the importance
of this happenstance in evolution.  It can apply
to Emacs evolution as well.

I pointed out that users of 3rd-party libraries
already appreciate "discovery" features similar
to those proposed.  Hence the request (not from
me, BTW) to add this to Emacs now.

I'm not promoting anything.  I spoke of Icicles
to describe a use of completion as "a means of
discovery" - by way of example.

If I instead used Helm, Ivy, or whatever other,
similar package, I could presumably use it as
an example here instead of Icicles, and that
would be just as helpful/relevant.  I'm not
familiar with them; I use Icicles.  mea culpa.

This is about improving vanilla Emacs, not about
getting users to use this or that outside pkg.