Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Michael Albinus]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> One way to register new manuals is by calling
>> `info-lookup-maybe-add-help' to register a new help
>> specification. Here's how info-lookup recognizes Tramp symbols from
>> Emacs Lisp buffers, for example:...
>>
>> If you are not in an Emacs Lisp buffer, you can always do C-u C-h S and
>> select `tramp-info-lookup-mode' manually.
>
> OK, good to know.  It would be good to incorporate
> such an ability in an easy-to-specify/use manner.
>
> E.g., in `help-fns+.el' you can just specify a list
> of manuals to use, in a user-option.
>
> It sounds like what you describe would need some
> encapsulation, massaging, or interfacing, to let
> users just do that to make use of specific manuals.

In Tramp, I've implemented a package-self hook. That is, if Tramp is
loodad, it hooks its manual into info-lookup.

A similar approach could be recommended for other packages.

Best regards, Michael.