From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Info viewer: Links to function documentations? Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:19:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83sghwa2d9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86blokhh1u.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="63664"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 16:22:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jH7qy-000GQB-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38110 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH7qx-0005YR-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:21:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH7oX-0001vT-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jH7oW-0002Qj-WA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4507 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jH7oN-0006Eu-TC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:19:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:15:07 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122658 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:15:07 -0400 > > > For example: When I'm writing `command-name' in a mode documentation > > Emacs creates automatically a link to the function documentation. When > > I'm writing the same in an info documentation it is shown as > > ´command-name', a dead string under Emacs' info viewer. And the user > > has to know that typing "C-h f" is accesses this documention. > > Info would indeed benefit from better use of hyperlinks (and images). > This will require using a different format, tho, since the Info format > is barely more than plain text. Info does support images (and the Emacs Info reader can display them). So at least this part really just waits volunteers to add images to our manuals. As for hyperlinks to Emacs documentation: if the intent is to link to the doc strings, then this is just a question of someone coming up with the code to do that.