GNU bug report logs - #59280
29.0.50; Buffer-menu-view-other-window lack of keybinding makes help look off

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:48:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 29.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 59280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59280: 29.0.50;
 Buffer-menu-view-other-window lack of keybinding makes help look off
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:52:50 +0200
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:47:14 -0800
> 
>     q    Remove the Buffer Menu from the display.
>     RET  Select current line’s buffer in place of the buffer menu.
>     o    Select that buffer in another window,
>          so the Buffer Menu remains visible in its window.
>     V    Select current line’s buffer, in View mode.
>     M-x Buffer-menu-view-other-window  Select that buffer in
>          another window, in ‘view-mode’.
> 
> The last entry there looks a bit off (see it in context).  I see two
> solutions:
> 
>   1. Add some keybinding for `Buffer-menu-view-other-window'.
>   2. Move `Buffer-menu-view-other-window' last.
> 
> I have no preferences here, but it would be good to do one of them.

How about removing it from the list?  Isn't 'o' enough?




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