From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brady Montz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 21 Apr 2002 00:35:17 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019374590 6384 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2002 07:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zBte-0001er-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:36:30 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zBtl-0007Rz-00 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:36:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zBtP-0002sL-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from c64-255-216-95.sea1.cablespeed.com ([64.255.216.95] helo=sandman.balestra.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zBsY-0002o4-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: (from bradym@localhost) by sandman.balestra.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) id g3L7ZHE09835; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:35:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sandman.balestra.org: bradym set sender to bradym@balestra.org using -f Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2914 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > 2. Once I've found a reference to it (an info page, the doc string, > > the customize gunk), I want better cross referencing. > > > > We're not too far off here. A "see also" section to the doc strings > > could be nice. > > Are you familiar with the cross-references in GNU Emacs doc strings? > (I'm not sure if that feature exists in XEmacs.) They are displayed in a > different face, and you can click on them (or type RET with point on > them) to follow the reference. These references are used for related > variables and functions and for showing the function's source, for > example. Yeah, not too far off here. That is nice, but I've seen few docstrings that make much use of it. -- Brady Montz bradym@balestra.org