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bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#13649: boobytrapped dired-do-async-shell-command question
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 20:39:14 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  13649@debbugs.gnu.org,  jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 20:34:45 +0300
> 
> >> >> Maybe this difference is unimportant.  But still remains the need
> >> >> to find a key to show help text from yes-or-no-p.  y-or-n-p now
> >> >> uses C-h to show help, but in yes-or-no-p C-h is useful as
> >> >> a help key prefix.
> >> >
> >> > Do we need C-h as a prefix key in this case?
> >> 
> >> C-h is a useful prefix key to get help in the yes-or-no-p minibuffer.
> >
> > What kind of help?  And how is it different from the help text you
> > wanted to show, for which you were looking for a key?
> 
> Any help, e.g. `C-h m', `C-h b', ...  But a special key
> like `? RET' is needed to display the text from help-form.

If you want to be able to use those C-h sequences, then "C-h C-h"
could show the text from help-form.





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