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26.1; Doc of pseudofunction key `<timeout>'

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 34784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34784: 26.1; Doc of pseudofunction key `<timeout>'
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:39:29 -0800 (PST)

> > > > 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.

How so - what makes you think that?

> > 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.

To understand an external, user-visible, external, key
description from `C-h' a user needs to dig into the
source code?  That's a sorry stance for Emacs help to
take, I think.

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