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 13:57:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87r4c5egfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <831u49fkxk.fsf@gnu.org> <83pprse4mf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380603489 16626 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 04:58:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 04:58:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 06:58:12 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 1VQs2F-0005sC-Qe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:58:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQs2F-0006nc-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQs28-0006nK-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQs21-0002OI-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:57063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQs20-0002Ny-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:57:56 -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 7AF30970A0D for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:57:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 408EE1205A7; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:57:53 +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:163762 Archived-At: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > What we might want/need (I have proposed this several times, and so have > others) is linking from doc strings to the manuals. That would indeed be > useful, IMO. It would provide missing glue, as you put it. > > There are a very few doc strings, IIRC, that actually do this. It would > be good to generalize it, or at least make use of it more. XEmacs has `Info-elisp-ref' which jumps to the Elisp manual entry for a function, defaulting to the function at point. Add a fallback to the current docstring's function, and you're most of the way there (the problem being that I-e-r currently doesn't know how to check other manuals than the Lispref).