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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:15:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eesbhl52.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dy398fs.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:16:39 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
>> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:38:53 +0200
>> 
>> I think that info documentation would be even better if there were links
>> to the function and variable documentation along the line of
>> help-mode.el.  As a proof of concept I extended info.el so that Emacs'
>> Info viewer exhibits links to most symbol definitions (when they are
>> `quoted' in the documentation).
>> 
>> When looking at a few Elisp and Emacs pages the verbosity and redundancy
>> of these automatic links seems not to be disturbing or too distracting.
>> 
>> Maybe this draft can be extended so that references to customisation
>> buffers are working as well (as is asked for in the TODO file)...
>> 
>> What are your ideas?
>
> I think this could be a useful feature, thanks1.
>
> What do others think?

+1 from me.  Perhaps some users will want a toggle.

-- 
Basil



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-21 20:38 Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 10:53   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 11:15   ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2020-04-25 16:04     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 17:22       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 17:34         ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 12:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-25 12:22   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-25 13:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 10:51       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-03 14:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 16:02           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 13:21     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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