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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 18:48:06 +0900


> On May 3, 2020, at 18:39, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> writes:
> 
>>> On May 3, 2020, at 17:17, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (The one thing s.el has, though, is an excellent overview of the
>>> functions: Just a list of all the functions, and examples that show how
>>> they work.  This is what most people who are trying to use a new
>>> language wants -- very few people are interested in reading a manual.)
>> 
>> And that is *very much* one of the things that is being discussed here :)
> 
> Perhaps we should just have an in-Emacs solution for the discoverability
> problem.
> 
> For instance, the doc strings of all the string related functions could
> have a link "For more string functions, click here" and then you're
> taken to a (info?) buffer that lists all the functions in the style of
> s.el's overview.  That is, just function signatures and examples, no
> in-depth talk at all.
> 
> (The functions could link to the "real" manual pages, of course.)

The helpful package does a lot of extra linking and formatting. Have you 
checked it ?


Jean-Christophe Helary
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