From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Changes in revision 114466 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:11:02 +0900 Message-ID: <87ob79ed1l.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <831u49fkxk.fsf@gnu.org> <83pprse4mf.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4c5egfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380607882 24533 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 06:11:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 06:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 08:11:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQtB5-0006sk-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:11:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQtB4-0007Z1-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQtAv-0007Xx-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQtAn-0006X9-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:34628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQtAn-0006Vq-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619F19709B4; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:11:02 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 255C11205A7; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:11:02 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta33) "horseradish" f478c6c7528c+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163765 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > GNU Emacs has `info-lookup-symbol', which is bound to `C-h S' > globally, so you can use it anywhere. Ah, we do too although it's in a package, and not bound by default. I'll have to try this. > But users are not necessarily aware of it. Isn't that what should be fixed, then? > It would be good to provide explicit (visible) links for some symbols > in some doc strings. Which ones and which ones? And why is that better (or easier to achieve) than having access for all symbols in all docstrings at the user's option?