GNU bug report logs - #36767
26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer

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Message #67 received at 36767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacsuser <at> freemail.hu, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#36767: 26.1; request: add more quick keys to the *Help* buffer
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:22:35 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:58:14 +0200
> Cc: 36767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>
> 
> Eli points out that it'd also be nice to use these commands from outside
> the *Help* buffer, too -- and that's true, but it's kinda unusual for
> commands to act that way?

I didn't necessarily mean the same commands, they could be separate
commands.  What's important to me is their effect.

> I can't think of many other commands (except `C-M-v') that act on
> the "other" window.

Some GUD commands, like the one which sets breakpoints, are similar:
they can be invoked from the GUD buffer and -- with another, more
complex, key sequence -- from the program source buffer as well.

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