GNU bug report logs - #4973
23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick reference cards on the Help menu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:45:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 4973 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 4973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4973: 23.1.50; Please provide access to Emacs's quick 
	reference cards on the Help menu
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:08 +0100

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>> In 2007, at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=65629
>> , dak wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we should link to [the Emacs quick reference card] in some
>>> manner, like offering to call
>>> (shell-command
>>>   (format (mailcap-mime-info "application/postscript")
>>>      (expand-file-name "refcard.ps" data-directory)))
>>
>> That's an excellent idea.  You should make the many quick reference
>> cards that you ship in emacs/etc/refcards accessible on the Help menu.
>> Could you please do that?
>
> Actually a bad idea as we concluded in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=105365


I can't see that we concluded that. Rather we had different arguments.
And things are changing.
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