GNU bug report logs - #19164
24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> wmi.amu.edu.pl>

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:51:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 19164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19164: 24.3; Feature request: describe-key-briefly with prefix argument
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:58:58 -0400

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

> I think that it makes more sense to display help as the default behaviour rather
> than inserting the help at point.  The use case for this behaviour is when the
> user wants to know what a command does in a brief way without showing the
> help buffer.

I think you've misunderstood the request.  It's about the behaviour when
describe-key-briefly gets a prefix argument.  *Currently* it inserts
'<key> runs the command <command-name>'.  The request is to insert just
'<command-name>'.

> Therefore I'm against making this change.

That said, I'm not really keen on this request either.
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