bug#12924: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where a variable is described

bug#12924: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where a variable is described

[Dani Moncayo]

Severity: wishlist

Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
F') is to commands.

That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.

This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).


In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2012-11-18 on MS-W7-DANI
Bzr revision: 110940 cyd@gnu.org-20121118053813-ijg6257029399jtu
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/zlib-1.2.5
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t


-- 
Dani Moncayo

bug#12924: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where avariable is described

[Drew Adams]

> Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
> that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
> F') is to commands.
> 
> That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
> node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.
> 
> This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
> current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
> keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).

See also:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-06/msg00368.html

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HelpPlus#toc1

bug#12924: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where a variable is described

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com> writes:

> Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
> that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
> F') is to commands.
>
> That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
> node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.
>
> This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
> current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
> keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

`C-h V' is taken by `describe-variable' these days, and there's also
`C-h S' to lookup a symbol in the manuals.  I think that adding a new
command to lookup variables, too, would probably be overkill, since
there's not that much overlap between user variables and other symbols
in the manual, usually.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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