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> From: Brady Montz <bradym@balestra.org>
> Date: 21 Apr 2002 10:17:13 -0700
> 
> I didn't say you didn't use them. Just that I haven't seen many doc
> strings that take much advantage of them for the "see also" purpose. 

How about sending bug reports about the missing references?  Or even
suggesting what related functions/variables should be mentioned in
specific doc string?

> Taking my running example of sort-lines, It's doc tells me about it's
> config variable sort-fold-case, but I had to do a find-library sort
> to look at the source to find out about sort-paragraphs, sort-pages,
> sort-fields, ...

I think "C-h a sort-" would have told you that faster...