From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:21:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83blhc7f4x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200926163008.GS1349@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1468"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bobnewell@bobnewell.net, rms@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, ghe@sdf.org To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 08 20:22:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kQaYg-0000Gp-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:22:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQaYf-0005dg-CG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQaXl-00052O-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kQaXi-0007hS-1W; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2592 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kQaXb-0003WA-1e; Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:21:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= on Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:08:23 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257223 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Martín > Cc: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." > , Gregory Heytings , > bobnewell@bobnewell.net, Richard Stallman , > João Távora > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:08:23 +0200 > > > C-h f kill-line > > put point somewhere on 'kill-line' in the docstring > > C-h S > > > > Now making that more widely known would help, I think. > > We could add a "View in Manual" button in Help buffers if info-lookup > says that the symbol is in the Emacs Lisp Info index. For interactive functions (a.k.a. "commands"), there's an ambiguity here: should the link lead to the Emacs user manual or to the Emacs Lisp Reference manual? We could show both, but that could confuse users (as opposed to Lisp programmers).