GNU bug report logs - #7967
23.2.93; keybindings should be echoed in *Message* buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:02:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 23.2.93

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7967: 23.2.93;
	keybindings should be echoed in *Message* buffer
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:47:00 -0600

On Wed Feb 2 2011 Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Execute any command foo with a keybinding in its "long form" M-x foo.
> > Emacs issues the message 
> >
> >   You can run the command `foo' with ...
> >
> > The default is to display this message for two seconds.
> > Then the message is gone for ever. 
> 
> You can use M-x where-is (C-h w) to bring it back whenever you like.

It wasn't emacs if there were not all kind of alternative ways for
this.  But why not put it into the *Message* buffer, too?
I like these messages because my capacity for memorizing things is
limited.

Roland
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