* bug#64517: Looking for manuals in Info within Emacs
@ 2023-07-07 15:52 uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-07 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2023-07-07 15:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 64517
Currently looking for manuals in Info within emacs is not so straightforward.
The following gets you to the elisp reference manual
C-h i m elisp
So why not also have the following for accessing the elisp intro
C-h i m elisp intro ; (instead of "C-h i m emacs lisp intro")
This would improve naming consistency "elisp" is the reference, "elisp intro"
is the intro.
I further suggest having
C-h i m emacs manual
C-h i m elisp manual
C-h i m elisp intro manual
So that everybody will know it is a reference to manuals.
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* bug#64517: Looking for manuals in Info within Emacs
2023-07-07 15:52 bug#64517: Looking for manuals in Info within Emacs uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2023-07-07 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2023-07-07 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: uzibalqa; +Cc: 64517
tags 64517 wontfix
close 64517
thanks
> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:52:56 +0000
> From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Currently looking for manuals in Info within emacs is not so straightforward.
>
> The following gets you to the elisp reference manual
>
> C-h i m elisp
>
> So why not also have the following for accessing the elisp intro
>
> C-h i m elisp intro ; (instead of "C-h i m emacs lisp intro")
>
> This would improve naming consistency "elisp" is the reference, "elisp intro"
> is the intro.
There's no consistency here: the menus are called according to the
titles of the corresponding manuals, that's all.
> I further suggest having
>
> C-h i m emacs manual
> C-h i m elisp manual
> C-h i m elisp intro manual
>
> So that everybody will know it is a reference to manuals.
The menu is human-readable and each manual has a description. I see no
reason to make it less useful by making it "consistent".
Closing this non-bug.
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