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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:257228 Archived-At: > IIRC, info-lookup already has some heuristics to decide between the > Emacs manual or the Emacs Lisp manual. For example, C-h S on find-file > opens the Emacs manual (even though the command is indexed on both > manuals), but C-h S on region-end opens the Emacs Lisp manual. >=20 > Maybe those heuristics are already good enough to make users and ELisp > programmers happy. Yes, such heuristics can help. But it's also good to let users specify which manuals to use (with, say, emacs and elisp as the defaults).