From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tutorial: clickable manual references Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:34:18 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hcff5p09.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205114164 16730 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 01:56:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:56:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 02:56:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYXFe-0003WC-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:56:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYXF5-0007Mm-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYXEH-00072e-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYXEF-00071p-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYXEF-00071d-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYXEF-0001wr-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYXE5-000BB4-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:55:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:27:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2374 [Mar 9 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91978 Archived-At: > wouldn't it be useful to make references to the Emacs manual be > "clickable" links? I'm afraid such links in the Tutorial will distract the reader that should concentrate on the Tutorial and not to switch to reading the Emacs manual. > I.e. clicking on "Completion" should open (info "(emacs)Completion"). > > ,----[ TUTORIAL ] > | Completion is described in Info in the Emacs manual in the node > | called "Completion". > `---- Since this link is at the end of the Tutorial it would do no harm. But maybe we could just teach the user how to read the Emacs manual by adding a chapter about this to the end of the Tutorial? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/