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Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu


From: Philip Kaludercic
Subject: Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:37:31 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>,  stefankangas@gmail.com,
>>   larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:27:34 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
>> >> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> >> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:58:09 +0300
>> >> 
>> >> The format notwithstanding, C-h q could also be mentioned in the
>> >> TUTORIAL, no?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure, FWIW.  Why is it important to have "C-h q" in the
>> > tutorial?  We only show a handful of Help commands there, and we do
>> > that for a reason.
>> 
>> I could imagine that something along the lines of "If you find it
>> difficult to remember the important bindings, you can always request an
>> overview with C-h q".
>
> There are more important C-h bindings than that, if we think we should
> have more in the tutorial.

Out of curiosity, what do you think these should be?

> I think we should see how helpful this new binding is before we decide
> it is a good addition to the tutorial.  We've just added it a few days
> ago.

This sounds good to me.



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