From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 16333@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16333: 24.3.50; Info manuals: link defined terms to their glossary entries
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:56:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zhc4hor.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnfk1ozm.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:47:09 +0100)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:47:09 +0100
> Cc: 16333@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
> > Enhancement request.
> >
> > Inspired from a post on emacs-devel in thread "Apologia for bzr",
> > 2014-01-03, which said,
> >
> > I bet you can dip into any number of Info nodes where the terms
> > "buffer" and "window" are used without definition.
> >
> > That would be a non-issue if such terms were linked (automatically) to
> > their glossary entries. This feature should be optional, and even easy
> > to toggle on/off. The links should be highlighted differently, so users
> > can easily tell that they are glossary links.
> >
>
> I think this is a very interesting feature request, but it
> unfortunately has received no reply. I personally would love to see
> this functionality, since I'm one of the users who almost always
> forgets to check the glossary.
Our convention is to have index entries to all definitions. For
example, type "i buffers RET", and you land where we define what is a
buffer.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-03 21:50 bug#16333: 24.3.50; Info manuals: link defined terms to their glossary entries Drew Adams
2020-01-15 19:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-15 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-15 20:22 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-29 6:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-29 6:59 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-29 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-29 14:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-29 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2021-10-11 14:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 14:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 14:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 14:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-15 21:18 ` bug#16333: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-11 15:24 ` Drew Adams
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2020-01-15 20:30 ` Drew Adams
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2020-10-29 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-30 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-31 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-10-31 17:04 ` Drew Adams
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