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Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

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Message #8 received at 55019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 55019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer
 describing a lisp entity should go to the source
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:30:24 +0200

emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> Since RET does not do anything useful on help text anyway, it's more
> convenient if RET goes to the source when pressed anywhere on the
> opening text describing the entity, without having to press TAB first.

Taking the user to the manual would be a more common thing to do, so if
we're binding RET in that buffer, then that's where it should go.

But I don't think we should, because either would be confusing.  Just
use the `s' and `i' commands instead.

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