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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:21:18 +0300

> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Cc: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions."
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>,
>  bobnewell@bobnewell.net,  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
>  João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:08:23 +0200
> 
> > 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.
> 
> We could add a "View in Manual" button in Help buffers if info-lookup
> says that the symbol is in the Emacs Lisp Info index.

For interactive functions (a.k.a. "commands"), there's an ambiguity
here: should the link lead to the Emacs user manual or to the Emacs
Lisp Reference manual?  We could show both, but that could confuse
users (as opposed to Lisp programmers).



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