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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:56:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #76 received at 50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: "gregory <at> heytings.org" <gregory <at> heytings.org>,
 "stefan <at> marxist.se" <stefan <at> marxist.se>,
 "50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command
 (see C-h C-h)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 17:08:04 +0000
> And I already said what I think about it: to me it sounds like a waste
> to reserve a C-h key for that.  It doesn't even belong to "help" per
> se, IMO.

+1.

Just because some key is not yet taken, that's not a
good reason to assign it eagerly or willy nilly.

And to me this sounds like such an assignment - this
doesn't need a key sequence.  The need identified
was just to call more attention to it.




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