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		eequah9L on March 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line I wish LibreOffice, GIMP etc. had an M-x way of finding the commands, and a describe-function to ask what exactly a given command is doing. Or C-h b way of sifting through keyboard shortcuts, in just another buffer with search and everything.

chootisk on March 7, 2020 | [–]

GIMP has something similar, triggered by pressing /. I discovered it way too late, but I haven't touched a menu ever since.

Libreoffice has a feature request for such a function [1].

[1]: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91874

eequah9L on March 7, 2020 | | [–]

Wow, thank you!

shouyatf on March 7, 2020 | [–]

There is a similar thing for Blender: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/40170

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