GNU bug report logs - #40915
[PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive

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Message #17 received at 40915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#40915: [PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:11:26 -0700 (PDT)

> In other words, doing one of:
> 
> (a) make 'Info-summary' into a general help command and use it in more
> places, or
> (b) deprecate 'Info-summary' in favour of 'describe-mode'.
> 
> It seems to me that _if_ we think the 'Info-summary' behaviour is
> useful, we would want to ensure more modes can benefit from it.  Or,
> to put it another way, I don't see why it would be uniquely useful to
> Info-mode -- it should be useful either in many more modes or nowhere.
> I haven't formed a strong opinion on this, but it would be interesting
> to hear what people think.

I don't really understand.  Info-summary is a
help command that describes Info.  You can invoke
it anywhere - not just in Info, so I don't see
why it would be deprecated and its content given
to describe-mode.

For (a), what do you mean by a "general" help
command?  The point of Info-summary is to provide
succinct help about Info.

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