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[PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 40915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40915: [PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:39:15 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

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

I meant that you can have a command which works in any major mode very
easily:

 (defun Info-summary ()
   "Display a brief summary of all Info commands."
   (interactive)
   (save-window-excursion
     (switch-to-buffer "*Help*")
     (setq buffer-read-only nil)
     (erase-buffer)
-    (insert (documentation 'Info-mode))
+    (insert (documentation major-mode))
     (help-mode)
     (goto-char (point-min))
     (let (ch flag)
       (while (progn (setq flag (not (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-max))))
 		    (message (if flag "Type Space to see more"
 			       "Type Space to return to Info"))
 		    (if (not (eq ?\s (setq ch (read-event))))
 			(progn (push ch unread-command-events) nil)
 		      flag))
 	(scroll-up)))
     (bury-buffer "*Help*")))

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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