From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im6jepft.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84e3f5ab-436e-c0ea-39f1-2466f3227910@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:49:43 +0200")
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> It will be a missed opportunity to teach some new users that they
> can/should use the manual for more in-depth explanations.
>
> Or that Emacs actually knows more about the function and its symbol.
>
> Anyway, I'll stop here. If you don't think we should push for manual's
> higher visibility, I certainly don't.
I think linking to the manual (as much as practically possible) from
*Help* is a good idea. However, `info-lookup-symbol' (the innards of
which we basically have to call) is a bit on the slow side.
Would it make sense to precompute (as part of the build process) a cache
that *Help* could consult?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 18:37 Would you say this information window is well designed? Peter Dean
2021-02-22 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 19:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 20:28 ` Joost Kremers
2021-02-22 21:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-22 21:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-02-22 22:30 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-23 0:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-23 5:34 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 5:46 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 5:54 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 15:29 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 17:32 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 17:59 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 19:36 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-23 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23 21:58 ` Peter Dean
2021-02-24 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-27 21:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-28 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-01 5:22 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-23 5:44 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-23 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-23 16:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-23 16:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-22 21:19 ` Stefan Kangas
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