bug#64517: Looking for manuals in Info within Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

tags 64517 wontfix
close 64517
thanks

> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:52:56 +0000
> From:  uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Currently looking for manuals in Info within emacs is not so straightforward.
> 
> The following gets you to the elisp reference manual
> 
>    C-h i m elisp
> 
> So why not also have the following for accessing the elisp intro
> 
>    C-h i m elisp intro        ; (instead of "C-h i m emacs lisp intro")
> 
> This would improve naming consistency "elisp" is the reference, "elisp intro"
> is the intro.

There's no consistency here: the menus are called according to the
titles of the corresponding manuals, that's all.

> I further suggest having
> 
>    C-h i m emacs manual
>    C-h i m elisp manual
>    C-h i m elisp intro manual
> 
> So that everybody will know it is a reference to manuals. 

The menu is human-readable and each manual has a description. I see no
reason to make it less useful by making it "consistent".

Closing this non-bug.