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Can't search through help menu.

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Message #45 received at 10945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 10945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10945: Can't search through help menu.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:56:30 +0200

>> 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?

Maybe help-for-help should use the minibuffer for reading commands
instead of using explicit read-key-sequence?  This would allow
switching to the *Metahelp* window with 'C-x o'.

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