Library MenuBarPlus, menu-bar+.el, provides better menu bar access to Emacs help, including some new help commands. This page describes these enhancements to the Help menu-bar menu.
The `Help’ menu has been enhanced as follows:
- Added submenu `Whoops!?’, with these items:
- Cancel Current Action (
‘keyboard-quit’) - Back to Top Level (
‘top-level’) - What Did I Do?! (
‘view-lossage’)

- Added these items to `Help’ menu:
- Help On Help (
‘help-for-help’) - Show Help Buffer – Raise a Frame showing buffer
*Help*, without selecting it (‘show-*Help*-buffer’). - Save Help Buffer – (
‘save-*Help*-buffer’) Emacs 20 only – see HelpPlus.
- Added submenu `Apropos’, with these items:
- Commands... (
‘apropos-command’) - User Options... – Show user variables that match a regular expression (
‘apropos-user-options’). - All Variables... (
‘apropos-variable’) - Variable Values... (
‘apropos-value’) - Symbols... (
‘apropos’) - Symbol Descriptions... (
‘apropos-documentation’) - Tags... (
‘tags-apropos’)

- Added submenu `Describe’, with these items:
- Command... (
‘describe-command’) - Function... (
‘describe-function’) - Option... (
‘describe-option’) - Option of Type... (
‘desribe-option-of-type’) - Variable... (
‘describe-variable’) - Face... (
‘describe-face’) - Key... (
‘describe-key’) - Keymap... (
‘describe-keymap’) – see HelpPlus - File... (
‘describe-file’) – see misc-cmds.el - Input Method... (
‘describe-input-method’) - Coding System... (
‘describe-coding-system’) - This... (
‘help-on-click/key’) – see HelpPlus - Current Modes (
‘describe-mode’) - Current Key Bindings (
‘describe-bindings’) - Current Syntax (
‘describe-syntax’) - Current Display Table (
‘describe-current-display-table’) - Current Coding Systems (
‘describe-current-coding-system-briefly’) - Menu Bar – Explain the menu bar, in general terms (
‘describe-menubar’).

- Added submenu `Learn More’, with these (sub)submenus and items:
- `Emacs’:
- Manual - Info Access the EmacsManual in InfoMode (
‘emacs-info’) - Manual Command Description... (
‘Info-goto-emacs-command-node’) - Manual Key Description... (
‘Info-goto-emacs-key-command-node’) - Manual Index... (
‘emacs-index-search’) - Manual Glossary (
‘search-emacs-glossary’) - Tutorial (
‘help-with-tutorial’) - FAQ (
‘view-emacs-FAQ’) - What's New (
‘view-emacs-news’)

- `Emacs Lisp’:
- Intro to Elisp
- Manual – Access the EmacsLispReference in InfoMode (
‘emacs-lisp-info’) - Manual Index...
- Locate Library... (
‘locate-library’) - Locate Libraries by Keyword (
‘finder-by-keyword’) – see FinderByKeyword - What's New (
‘view-emacs-lisp-news’) – Emacs 20 only

- Last Accessed Info Manual (
‘info’) - All Info Manuals – Access all online manuals via “Info” (
‘dir-info’). - Unix Man Page... (
‘manual-entry’)
- Added this item to `Options submenu:
- Show, Edit All Options (
‘edit-options’) – Emacs 20 only
See Also: HelpPlus – extensions to standard help libraries
CategoryHelp