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RE: [External] : Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: [External] : Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:46:32 +0000

It's good to discuss possible improvements to `C-h'.

(I do hope that, this time however, changes aren't
made before a wide discussion here, and preferably
some consensus is reached.  And at least this isn't
happening only in a bug thread.)
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FWIW, I've never been a big fan of the help-for-help UI.

At a minimum, keys and commands mentioned should
have links to their full doc (or other info).

(In particular, if only keys are shown, they should
be linked to doc that shows their command bindings.)

Not as a _substitute_, but just as an example, using
`describe-keymap help-map' shows you each `C-h' key,
together with its command.  And the command, at least,
is linked to its doc string.

Again, I'm not saying that this is a _substitute_
for help-for-help.  I'm just saying that suggestions
such as yours should have links on things, at a
minimum.

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