Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Cc: bobnewell@bobnewell.net,  rms@gnu.org,  rpluim@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  joaotavora@gmail.com,  ghe@sdf.org
> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 22:45:18 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >
> > 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).
> 
> 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.

That heuristics is exactly the issue here: it shows the user manual
for a function that is a command.  The suggestion in this thread was
to show the ELisp manual instead, or at least the current heuristics
was deemed to be insufficient based on the fact that the ELisp manual
was not shown.