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29.0.50; Add key binding for find-library

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti <at> inventati.org>
Cc: 52074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52074: 29.0.50; Add key binding for find-library
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:20:46 +0100

Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti <at> inventati.org> writes:

> I was just wondering if to anyone other than me it would make sense to
> have a default key binding for find-library. This is something I use
> regularly to explore the source code of built-in features and external
> packages to understand more about them.

Yes, it's a useful command, so perhaps we should have a default binding
for it.

> In my init.el, I have this setting:
>
> (keymap-global-set "C-h C-l" #'find-library)
>
> I picked this key binding for mnemonic reasons (h -> help, l ->
> library) and because 'C-h C-l' seems to be unbound in emacs -Q.

Hm...  Finding a library isn't exactly a help command, so I think it
would be somewhat confusing to put it there.  But I don't have a good
suggestion for where to put otherwise.

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