GNU bug report logs - #10945
Can't search through help menu.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:10:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 21.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 10945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:24:49 +0100

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Emacs.
>
> With a recent bzr head:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-h ?       ; brings up the help menu
>
> I now want to search through this menu for "ChangeLog":
>
> C-x         ; intending C-x o
>
> The menu disappears.  This isn't friendly.

We can now search that window using `C-h ? C-s', and it switches to
the *Metahelp* window.  This functionality was added in this comit:

956c39d11d 2018-04-02 Make help-for-help window searchable (Bug#19655)

`C-h C-x o' still doesn't work, though.

Is that good enough here?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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