Slawomir Grochowski <[email protected]> writes:

> this patch adds a quick-help popup for Org column view, bound to `?'.
> ...
> However, I think this small popup is already useful in its current form.
> Column view has enough specialized bindings that a compact quick-help
> buffer makes it much easier to move around and edit values.  If a more
> integrated generic facility appears later, we can replace the
> implementation then.  I do not think we need to keep waiting for that
> before improving the current user experience.

+1

> It looks roughly like this:
>
>   Value                      Column                  Move row/column          
> View                Misc.
>   e         edit             M-S-<right> add         M-<up>    row up         
> c       contents    g redo
>   a         allowed          M-S-<left>  delete      M-<down>  row down       
> o       overview    ? quick help
>   S-<right> next             <           narrow      M-<left>  column left    
> v       show value  q quit
>   S-<left>  previous         >           widen       M-<right> column right   
> C-c C-o open link
>   C-c C-c   toggle checkbox  s           attributes
>   C-c C-t   TODO

narrow/widen is confusing. I first thought that it means something like
"narrow to region" and "widen the narrowing".
"?" and "q" are awkward. quick help what (when it is displayed already)?
quit columns? quit help window?

> I would like to hear whether people are fine with this direction.  I
> used `?' because it is a common key for contextual help in special
> buffers, and column view already has its own overlay keymap while it is
> active.  Since I maintain this file, I can merge it after review if
> there are no objections.

+1 for ?. I think I also suggested it in the original discussion.

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