From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Changes in revision 114466
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:27:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abf3509b-9467-4af9-a7ee-69707e7ea57e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe13424f-f4c8-47f8-9240-62ef57703e58@default>
> > > What we might want/need (I have proposed this several times, and so
> > > have others) is linking from doc strings to the manuals. That would
> > > indeed be useful, IMO. It would provide missing glue, as you put it.
> > >
> > > There are a very few doc strings, IIRC, that actually do this. It
> > > would be good to generalize it, or at least make use of it more.
> >
> > XEmacs has `Info-elisp-ref' which jumps to the Elisp manual entry for
> > a function, defaulting to the function at point. Add a fallback to
> > the current docstring's function, and you're most of the way there
> > (the problem being that I-e-r currently doesn't know how to check
> > other manuals than the Lispref).
>
> GNU Emacs has `info-lookup-symbol', which is bound to `C-h S' globally,
> so you can use it anywhere. But users are not necessarily aware of it.
> It would be good to provide explicit (visible) links for some symbols
> in some doc strings.
Here is a previous discussion of this, FWIW.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-01/msg00938.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.53349.1380335551.10747.emacs-diffs@gnu.org>
2013-09-28 7:46 ` Changes in revision 114466 Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-28 22:30 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-29 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-29 7:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-09-30 4:55 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-30 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-30 10:29 ` Stephen Berman
2013-09-30 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-30 15:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-01 2:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-30 11:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-30 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83k3hye2uq.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-30 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 3:40 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-01 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-01 5:15 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 5:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-10-01 6:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-01 7:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 8:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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