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

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Message #20 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 10:17:26 -0700 (PDT)

> 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.

To be clearer:

In my library info+.el I long ago replaced binding
Info-summary to `?' and `C-h m', binding those to
`describe-mode'.  But I don't see why Info-summary
should be removed/deprecated.  It has a different
purpose: providing only a summary of Info, not all
the other info that describe-mode provides.

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