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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: i@introo.me, 22866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22866: 24.5; 'C-h S' leads to inaccurate result
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:09:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y4a1pzhv.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9gq6ssb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:36 +0200")

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I think the way to solve this is to have a new Help command that would
> specifically look up a function name in the ELisp manual.

Just FYI, the info-look module can be configured to also look up things in the
elisp manual. I've been using it to do this for years now, via
`info-lookup-symbol'. And it's already part of Emacs, so we'd just need to
integrate by default.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2





  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-01  3:23 bug#22866: 24.5; 'C-h S' leads to inaccurate result Shiyao Ma
2016-03-01 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-01 16:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-01 23:09     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-03-02  7:44       ` Shiyao Ma
2016-03-02 22:28         ` John Wiegley
2022-01-24 12:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] <<CAJQX3DxMdTuJeTm2U7s9sAFOFFi5xDsdgOj8UforEnkP9_sUQw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<16fa0843-cc8a-4ad4-a627-50ded0d70c3b@default>
     [not found]   ` <<83h9gq6ssb.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-03-01 17:18     ` Drew Adams

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