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From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:07:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lvldjFa7hrfU2@mid.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> From http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/CategoryDocumentation
>
> `Emacs comes with ReferenceCards. Emacs is known as “the
> SelfDocumenting” editor, though, so while the refcard can be useful, one
> should learn to rely on InfoMode for most of the more complicated
> features of this editor.'
>
> Isn't the self-documenting attribute demostrated by the documentation
> written into the elisp code and displayed with `C-h m', rather than
> something to do with info?

I've often thought it a pity that there is no, apparent, link from the
function docs back to the relevant sections of potentially helpful Info
files. Or?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26  8:04 Emacs documentation sources Dave Pawson
2007-09-26  9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 17:43 ` Sean Sieger
     [not found] ` <mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 18:07   ` Richard G Riley [this message]
2007-09-26 18:55     ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27  8:44     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found] ` <mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 19:53   ` David Kastrup
2007-09-26 21:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27  6:17       ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27  7:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 20:17           ` David Kastrup
2007-09-28  8:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1419.1190967231.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:36               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 23:13               ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 16:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1475.1191082767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 17:00                   ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 19:09                     ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:31           ` Stefan Monnier

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