Subject: Re: bug#38597: 26.3; M-x describe-key-briefly does not work with various keys in various modes
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Ed Sabol <[email-masked]>, "Edward J. Sabol" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:31:00 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Edward J. Sabol" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Steps to repoduce:
> 1. Open an RMAIL file.
> 2. M-x rmail-mode
> 3. Type `h' to generate rmail-summary window for the RMAIL file and
> switch to the RMAIL-summary buffer/window.
> 4. Type `M-x describe-key-briefly' and then type `r'.
> 
> I would expect the "r" key to be described in the minibuffer, but it is not.
> It only seems to work if you use `C-h c'. This is with `emacs -Q'.

Thanks, this appears to be already fixed in the development sources,
which will become Emacs 27.1.