GNU bug report logs - #50880
Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, 50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:24:45 +0200

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

>> What was wrong with
>>
>> C-h g -> About the GNU project
>> C-h G -> Emacs copying permission (GNU General Public License)
>> C-h C-c -> Contributing
>
> IMO the best proposal so far, but Lars didn't want to move the GPL
> from 'C-h C-c' so that part unfortunately makes it a non-starter.

I'm not dead set against it -- it's not like these are commands that
people use heavily.  But that cuts the other way, too -- making this new
command mnemonic isn't really that important, either, since I'd assume
that people would be accessing them via `C-h C-h' and then paging down,
entering whatever key it says they should use.  I.e., nobody's
remembering these keystrokes anyway.

Perhaps Eli has an opinion here?

>> Also, I would put "Contributing to Emacs" in the first subsection of
>> "Miscellaneous", after "Debugging Emacs", where it belongs.  Which by the
>> way makes me wonder why Emacs TODO is not there, too.  It would perhaps be
>> even better to create a third subsection with
>>
>> C-p Known problems
>> C-d Debugging Emacs
>> ?   Contributing to Emacs
>> C-t Emacs TODO
>
> Good idea, I like it.

Me too.

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