Subject: bug#52870: Is displaying <menu-bar> bindings in describe-function useful?

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:29:22 -0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The rationale is that hardly anyone ever looks at the "Probably
>> introduced" line.  Before it is slightly better, but not good enough:
>> some doc strings are very long, so the menu-bar bindings will be
>> pushed too far.

FWIW, I disagree that putting it at the end "pushes it too far".
Most docstrings can fit on a single screen so users will quickly learn
where to find it.

> Perhaps keeping it grouped with the binding info would be good, though.
> So:
>
> It is bound to C-h f and <help> f
> It can also be invoked from the menu: "Help Menu" -> "Describe" ...
>
> or something like that?

Sounds good to me.