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RE: How to make Emacs popular again.
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: How to make Emacs popular again. |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:06:20 -0700 (PDT) |
> >> 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.
>
> Yes, it should be fairly easy to do using the
> `help-fns-describe-*-functions` hooks.
That won't help with variable, face, etc. help.
> > 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).
>
> I think something like:
>
> Also documented in the >Emacs user's manual<.
> Also documented in the >ELisp programmer's reference<.
>
> should be clear enough (where >...< is meant to delimit the hyperlink).
That won't help with functions (vars, faces, etc.)
covered in other manuals: CL, Tramp, Org, Dired-X,
Calc, Ediff, etc.
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., (continued)
- 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.,
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- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/08
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- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/09
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/09
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/09
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/09
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Drew Adams, 2020/10/08
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again., Gregory Heytings, 2020/10/08