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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:41:14 +0300

> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:38:00 +0000
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>,
>  bobnewell@bobnewell.net, rms@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > 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).
> >
> 
> Perhaps it would be even clearer as follows (again with the example of 
> kill-buffer):
> 
> See also `(emacs) Buffers'.  For programmers, see also `(elisp) Buffers'.

"For programmers" is ambiguous (programmers are users as well).  Maybe
something like "For calling from a Lisp program".  And we should have
some adequate qualification for the user-manual link as well, perhaps
"For interactive use".



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