Subject: bug#50881: [External] : bug#50881: C-h C-s leads to empty " *Metahelp*" buffer

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:52:38 +0000

> > That's the problem with thinking your personal preferences are
> > definitely good for everyone else.  They aren't.
> 
> This is not a personal preference.  I looked through the eyes of
> a beginner who types 'C-h C-h' to get help, and the first thing
> the user sees is that parens are highlighted on the first line:
> 
>   (Type <PageDown> or <PageUp> to scroll, C-s to search, or q to exit.)
> 
> This is what we trying to tell the user with this information:
> 
>   Look, it's very important that the first paren on the first line
>   matches its closing paren, so we highlighted these parens for you.

Mountain out of a mole hill?

Or maybe the new-user takeaway is that Emacs highlights
matching parens by default.  ("Hey, that can be useful!")