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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
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Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:29:58 +0200 |
>>>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:22:01 +0000, Gregory Heytings via "Emacs
>>>>> development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> said:
>>> I also didn't read the manual very often, because I didn't find it
>>> easily.
>>
>> Can you suggest a way to make that easier for others in the future?
>>
Emacs> My suggestion would be to add links in the docstrings to the relevant
Emacs> chapter in the Emacs and Emacs Lisp manuals. Three examples:
Emacs> kill-line would have a link to (info "(emacs)Killing")
Emacs> kill-buffer would have two links, one to (info "(emacs)Buffers") and
another to (info "(elisp)Buffers")
Emacs> call-process would have a link to (info "(elisp)Processes")
Emacs> I think a link to the relevant chapter, as in the examples above, is
Emacs> better than a link to the relevant section or subsection. With this,
Emacs> users who follow that link would find more information about the
Emacs> general context of the command or function, and not just a similar
Emacs> documentation.
Try
C-h f kill-line
put point somewhere on 'kill-line' in the docstring
C-h S
Now making that more widely known would help, I think.
Robert
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- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., (continued)
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/07
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again.,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Robert Pluim, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Daniel Martín, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Daniel Martín, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/08
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/09
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/08