Subject: Re: bug#34784: 26.1; Doc of pseudofunction key `<timeout>'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 20:51:41 +0200

> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:20:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > > Anyway, back to the point of this bug report: How
> > > is a user to know this info about `<timeout>',
> > > without digging into the code?
> > 
> > Why should they?  This is an internal matter between CUA and itself, a
> > detail of its implementation.
> 
> Huh? Why shouldn't they?

Because it's an implementation detail.

> If a user sees this help:
> 
>  key             binding
>  ---             -------
>  C-c <timeout>   copy-region-as-kill
> 
> and s?he wants to know how to invoke
> `copy-region-as-kill' starting with prefix `C-c',
> where is s?he supposed to turn for that info?

To the source code, of course.