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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-store-link and help for a key
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:25:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeevhkit.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eenajoha.fsf@localhost> (Ihor Radchenko's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:32:33 +0800")

Hi Maxim and Ihor,

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

>> Such behavior exists for ages, at least since 8.2.10 till current master.
>
> I can reproduce this.
>
> The reason of error is simple: help buffers for key combinations where
> not considered when writing help: link type.
> Current code does not even store the link to such help buffers correctly
> - when the key sequence has more than a single key only the first key
> will be stored (tested in <f1> k <f1> k help buffer).
> The code to open help: link type also does not know that help: link can
> point to anything other than function or variable.
>
> I can see two solutions:
>
> 1. Avoid storing links to help buffers describing key sequences. Show
>    error when trying to store such link instead

Even though storing links to help buffers describing key bindings is
tempting, there is no way to recreate such buffers only based on the
key string, because keys are contextual.

In org-mode, C-h k C-a will describe org-beginning-of-line while in
other modes it will probably describe beginning-of-line.

So we cannot really write a proper handler for these links and the
user error is correct here.

I'm closing this bug report now.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-09 14:54 org-store-link and help for a key Maxim Nikulin
2020-09-10  3:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-09-13 20:01   ` Bastien
2020-09-14  7:21     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-27 14:25   ` Bastien [this message]
2021-04-27 14:44     ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-27 15:52       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-04-27 16:41         ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-27 20:01           ` Nicolas Goaziou

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