Re: emacs-28 6170c50: Fix regression in help-mode prompt

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:28:24 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:01:21 +0100
>>
>> > I didn't change the text to improve it, I changed it to make it
>> > shorter.  Because otherwise, when we echo the keys typed by the user,
>> > they overflow the (default) window width, and that resizes the
>> > mini-window, which causes an unpleasant effect of scrolling the Help
>> > window.
>> >
>> > If you can suggest a different solution that avoids the resizing,
>> > please do.
>>
>> Is this about the *Metahelp* buffer displayed by typing `C-h ?'?  Then I
>> think it's sufficient to prompt with "Type one of the options%s: ",
>> since the buffer containing the options is in plain view.
>
> Those options go out of view as soon as you scroll.

I think users know or readily learn that they can scroll back.

Steve Berman