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

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Message #82 received at 50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, gregory <at> heytings.org
Subject: Re: bug#50880: Add "Contributing to Emacs" help command (see C-h C-h)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:58:09 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 20:45:54 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>, 50880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Whether or not it belongs should not be treated formalistically,
> because then we might as well remove the entry "About the GNU
> project".

No, because "About" is a de-facto standard item in the Help menu of
many programs.  We just made 2 of them instead of just one.

> The point of this is to encourage more contributions to Emacs, and
> the cost for doing so is low.

But why does it need a key binding?  Not every command has a key
binding, and not having one doesn't mean the command isn't important.
Assigning a key binding is NOT low-cost, especially in a crowded
keymap such as C-h.

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