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Re: Current mode command discovery


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Current mode command discovery
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:03:29 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:47:45 +0100
> 
> > Careful: the completion predicate is not just for M-x, it is also for
> > "C-h x" and other commands that complete on functions and commands.
> 
> Hm...  that's certainly a wrinkle here.  On the other hand,
> `C-h f digit-argument' would work as always.

Is "C-h x" the only command to use this, in addition to M-x?

> The four commands under discussion here (see the bug report) all have in
> common that nobody would actually `M-x' them, because they do nothing if
> you do that.  (I think?  I'm not 100% sure about `digit-argument'.)  So
> they're commands because they're bound to keys only.
> 
> So I'm leaning towards being fine with `C-h x ignorTAB' not expanding to
> `ignore'.  Probably.

"C-h x" is a command we introduced for newbies, and then we proceed
confusing them with commands that cannot be shown with "C-h x"?  is
that reasonable and consistent?



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