RE: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Drew Adams]

> IIRC, info-lookup already has some heuristics to decide between the
> Emacs manual or the Emacs Lisp manual. For example, C-h S on find-file
> opens the Emacs manual (even though the command is indexed on both
> manuals), but C-h S on region-end opens the Emacs Lisp manual.
> 
> Maybe those heuristics are already good enough to make users and ELisp
> programmers happy.

Yes, such heuristics can help.

But it's also good to let users specify which manuals
to use (with, say, emacs and elisp as the defaults).