From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question on set-window-margins
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:49:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0iyxsym.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXohU6fWeScpPFLt_6a4KnnFx+Ck1_kSm-5YG+Ur_pgDgzQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Yates on Wed, 3 Jan 2024 10:11:38 -0500)
> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 10:11:38 -0500
> Cc: "Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr>, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 8:16 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Doc strings and the manuals have
> > different purposes and different size limitations, so it's
> > unreasonable to expect only one of them to include all of the
> > important information, let alone that of secondary importance,
> > caveats, etc.
>
> Might there be a way for a doc string to include an unobtrusive
> small link to the full documentation?
We do that when there are too many details to have them in the doc
string. Otherwise, there's no need for a link because typing 'i' in
the *Help* buffer will show the corresponding documentation in the
manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-03 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-02 17:58 Question on set-window-margins Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-02 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-02 19:46 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 3:42 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-03 5:50 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 14:05 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 17:24 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-03 17:56 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 21:52 ` Jeremy Bryant
2024-01-04 8:53 ` Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)
2024-01-03 15:11 ` John Yates
2024-01-03 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-03 20:07 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-01-04 12:29 ` John Yates
2024-01-04 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-05 0:25 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-05 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-06 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
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