RE: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Gregory Heytings]

> > 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.
>
> Yes.  A start is to what I do in `help-mode+.el': change the help-echo 
> on a linked symbol, so it includes mention of `C-h S'.  This trivial 
> change could be made to `help-mode.el'.
>
> IOW, instead of just
>
> "mouse-2, RET: describe this symbol"
>
> say:
>
> "mouse-2, RET: describe, C-h S RET: check manual"

This help-echo is not present in all help buffers, I see it only in C-h m 
(describe-mode) buffers.  And it is necessary to put point on the symbol 
before pressing C-h S RET.

Wouldn't a "See also chapter N ZZZZ in the Emacs manual." and/or "For 
programmers, see also chapter N ZZZZ in the Emacs Lisp manual." (with 
hyperlinks) at the end of ordinary help buffers be much more useful?  I 
can only speak for myself, but this is what I would have found useful when 
I started using Emacs.