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26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>
Cc: 36767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:52:36 +0200

ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu> writes:

> The Help buffer shows a link to the source code where the symbol is
> defined. Add the currently unbound key 's' to quickly visit the source
> code without having to navigate to the link.
>
> Also, the user may want to read more about the symbol if it is
> a built in one, so add a quick way to visit the Info page
> of the symbol which Help is shown. The currently unbound key 'i' is
> suitable for this purpose.

Makes sense to me -- you can tab to the button, and `C-h S' works, but
both are more fiddly, so I've added these commands to Emacs 28.

Which was unexpectedly quite a lot of work, since the *Help* buffers
don't really seem to have any data available to say what they're about.  

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