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#55940
macOS: <ns-show-prefs> displayed as keybinding for \\[customize]
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Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:03:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #26 received at 55940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
>
>> Aha, thanks. I can't find it in '(emacs) Mac / GNUstep Events' but I
>> might be missing something. (Also: The other events there seem to be
>> missing index entries; maybe we would want to add such entries.)
>
> Done.
>
>> Adding this event to the manual is useful, but I still think that, for
>> the purposes of command substitution, it would be better to display an
>> actual keybinding rather than an event.
>
> I have no opinion towards that, since I don't actually use Mac OS.
I think it's fine to only update the documentation. We can expand the
text a bit and say that <ns-open-prefs> is usually sent by the OS when
Emacs is the front process and the user presses `Cmd-,' (comma). This
is officially documented, at least for macOS
(https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236). Similarly, we already say
that the fonts panel event is sent with `Cmd-t`.
If we had common events indexed in the manuals, users could ask Emacs
about any of them with C-h S, for example. Improving the
self-documenting features in Emacs is an alternative that I like more
compared to changing the displayed text depending on if there's only
events and no keybindings bound to a function, for example.
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