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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:257224 Archived-At: > C-h f kill-line > put point somewhere on 'kill-line' in the docstring > C-h S >=20 > Now making that more widely known would help, I think. Yes. A start is to what I do in `help-mode+.el': change the help-echo on a linked symbol, so it includes mention of `C-h S'. This trivial change could be made to `help-mode.el'. IOW, instead of just "mouse-2, RET: describe this symbol" say: "mouse-2, RET: describe, C-h S RET: check manual" That just requires this in `help-mode.el': (define-button-type 'help-symbol :supertype 'help-xref 'help-function #'describe-symbol 'help-echo (purecopy "mouse-2, RET: describe this symbol, \ C-h S RET: check manual")) ___ As mentioned in another mail, we could enhance `C-h S' to use more than the Emacs manual, in which case that `help-echo' would say "manuals", not "manual".