I asked on IRC if there was any way to make \d behave like \d+ by default, and davidfetter said no but suggest it here.
endpoint_david pointed out you could use \d- to get the old behavior if you wanted to temporarily negate the setting.
So the proposal would be:
\d+ does as it has always done, no change
\d- (new) always behaves like 'old' \d
\d acts as 'old' \d or as \d+, depending on the setting of 'verbose_describe', set via \pset.
Default setting of verbose_describe would presumably yield 'old' behavior.
Motivation is that I like to see comments when they exist. Probably useful for other reasons too.
Cheers -Terry