From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: customizing a variable named in Info Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:34:28 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4763.1066527268@mixed> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066527365 446 80.91.224.253 (19 Oct 2003 01:36:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 01:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 03:36:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AB2UF-0004pU-00 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:36:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AB2UE-0003Xr-00 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 03:36:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AB2Tb-0002G1-JR for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AB2TF-0002DK-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AB2Sj-0001qV-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.110.141.131] (helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AB2Sh-0001mC-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5AA8C71C6A; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:34:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mixed (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D7B71C68; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:34:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2+cvs; nmh 1.1-RC1; GNU Emacs 21.3.1 X-Image-URL: http://people.debian.org/~psg/face.png X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17240 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17240 Forgive the intrusion, this is perhaps the wrong list for a feature request. It would be nice to have a way to identity an Emacs variable in texinfo sources such that when Emacs Info renders the page it can make the variable name clickable in order to customize it. (I know texinfo is not limited to documenting Emacs, so this would probably be a secret handshake of some sort that Emacs could parse.) I find myself writing docs that often say things like "if you wish to enable this feature, customize the variable `foobar'. I know I can put point on the string, do `C-h v' and then click on customize, but such a feature would make customizable variables stand out and the documentation would therefore render the information in a more efficient way (specially for new users). Thanks, -- Peter S. Galbraith GPG key 1024/D2A913A1 - 97CE 866F F579 96EE 6E68 8170 35FF 799E 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/