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RE: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: RE: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 22:41:17 +0000
User-agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19)


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.

Why not?  I'd expect them to appear as things like:

     Also documented in >Calc's manual<.

I meant that it won't help now (as is, with `Info-lookup').

Yes, links to such manuals would help.

But if we are going to do this for more, or all, names referred to in *Help*, and not just for the name that's the subject of the *Help*, then "Also documented in..." would become a real drag.


I don't think anyone here is proposing to do this.



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