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.bugs Subject: bug#16333: 24.3.50; Info manuals: link defined terms to their glossary entries Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:56:36 +0200 Message-ID: <835zhc4hor.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pnfk1ozm.fsf@marxist.se> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="66308"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 16333@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 20:57:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1iromu-000Gxh-3D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:57:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59996 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iroms-0002LB-SP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iroml-0002Kj-KO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iromk-0000d8-L4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iromk-0000d1-II for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iromk-0000CD-HY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:57:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:57:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16333 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 16333-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16333.1579118198719 (code B ref 16333); Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:57:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16333) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Jan 2020 19:56:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35614 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iromI-0000BU-6R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60027) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iromC-0000BA-Ld for 16333@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irom7-0000FL-6b; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4980 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1irom6-0007n0-Ki; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:56:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pnfk1ozm.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:47:09 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:174659 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:47:09 +0100 > Cc: 16333@debbugs.gnu.org > > Drew Adams writes: > > > Enhancement request. > > > > Inspired from a post on emacs-devel in thread "Apologia for bzr", > > 2014-01-03, which said, > > > > I bet you can dip into any number of Info nodes where the terms > > "buffer" and "window" are used without definition. > > > > That would be a non-issue if such terms were linked (automatically) to > > their glossary entries. This feature should be optional, and even easy > > to toggle on/off. The links should be highlighted differently, so users > > can easily tell that they are glossary links. > > > > I think this is a very interesting feature request, but it > unfortunately has received no reply. I personally would love to see > this functionality, since I'm one of the users who almost always > forgets to check the glossary. Our convention is to have index entries to all definitions. For example, type "i buffers RET", and you land where we define what is a buffer.