From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Changes in revision 114466 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <831u49fkxk.fsf@gnu.org> <83pprse4mf.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4c5egfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380605254 433 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 05:27:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:27:34 +0000 (UTC) To: Drew Adams , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 07:27:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsUh-0001Gf-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:27:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsUh-0001ap-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsUX-0001Z5-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsUM-0002jp-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:32335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsUM-0002jh-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r915RCW2010816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:27:13 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r915RBND008629 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:27:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r915RAco006700; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:27:11 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163764 Archived-At: > > > 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). >=20 > 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