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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-23 10:31:56 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-23 10:31:56 +0200
commit19c95b141606282915ed6c1a3f2c42a6b7a4420b (patch)
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downloademacs-19c95b141606282915ed6c1a3f2c42a6b7a4420b.tar.gz
Allow showing prefix commands in Help buffers
* lisp/help.el (describe-bindings-show-prefix-commands): New user option. (describe-map): Use it to decide whether to output prefix commands. Patch by Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com>. (Bug#62279) * etc/NEWS: Document 'describe-bindings-show-prefix-commands'.
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@@ -3565,11 +3565,13 @@ font spec. In these cases, replacing ":weight 'normal" with ":weight
'medium" should fix the issue.
---
-** Keymap descriptions have changed.
+** Keymap descriptions by Help commands have changed.
'help--describe-command', 'C-h b' and associated functions that output
keymap descriptions have changed. In particular, prefix commands are
-not output at all, and instead of "??" for closures/functions,
-"[closure]"/"[lambda]" is output.
+not output at all, and instead of "??" for closures/functions, these
+functions output "[closure]"/"[lambda]". You can get back the old
+behavior of including prefix commands by customizing the new option
+'describe-bindings-show-prefix-commands' to a non-nil value.
---
** 'downcase' details have changed slightly.