Subject: bug#51240: [External] : bug#51240: 27.2; Binding find-library commands

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:33:52 +0000

> > IMO, we should bind `find-library-other-window' to
> > `C-x 4 l' and `find-library-other-frame' to `C-x 5 l'.
> 
> Since other Emacs-Lisp specific keys are on the `C-h' key prefix
> like `C-h f' and `C-h S', a key to find an Emacs-Lisp library
> could find a place in the same `C-h' key prefix.

It's not about finding help information.
It's about finding a library - a file.  Do you
also propose to move the find-file commands to
the `C-h' prefix, because the command name is
"find"?  Moving `C-x 4 f' to `C-h <something>'?

> But I don't understand why it needs a new key - it already
> works fine with 'C-x 4 f' and 'C-x 5 f' when point is on
> the library name, then typing 'M-n' will get the library file.

It's not about the cursor being on the library
name.  It's about getting the library file
wherever you are, in whatever buffer, directory,
etc.

What's the big deal?  IIRC, in the last month
alone you've proposed (and grabbed) a _bunch_
of new default keys, no?

These find-library keys just make sense, IMO.