From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. 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That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257211 Archived-At: >>>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:54:09 +0000, Gregory Heytings said: Gregory> Well, that doesn't quite do what I suggest. It only finds the symbol Gregory> in the Emacs manual (AFAICS it does not search in the Elisp manual), Gregory> and what you find when you do this on a command is something that much Gregory> resembles what you find in the docstring, so it doesn't look like Gregory> useful information, it looks redundant. As I said, I think entering Gregory> the chapter would be much more useful, as it would give the user the Gregory> feeling that there is more information there. It puts you in info, where it is obvious there is more information: at the top of the buffer it says: Up: Deletion and Killing so finding out more is easy. Robert --