From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Info viewer: Links to function documentations? Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:20:29 +0100 Message-ID: <86blokhh1u.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="3621"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5DJpRAJ2dAjiVb+s3FEU+CKaUqs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 11:21:02 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 1jH39i-0000px-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33378 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH39h-00024y-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH39M-000241-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jH39L-0000oU-Ai for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:49680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jH39L-0000mo-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jH39H-0000Lv-4M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:20:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 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:122652 Archived-At: Hello Emacs The self-documenting capapilities of GNU-Emacs are so nice that I'm wondering, a bit, why they are not available for the info viewer in Emacs? 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. Is such an implementation so much work and not worth doing it? Is the usage of info style documentation lessening overall? And while I'm at it, Texinfo allows to include images. It would be helpful if they were available for the info viewer - under Emacs - as well.. :-) Thank you for your opinion -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Zwingenberg, Germany