From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: glossary terms linked Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:35:30 +0300 Organization: GNU.Support Message-ID: References: <20140102211452.GA28685@c3po> <83d2k9xx1f.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvp4kdoh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22752"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Toby Cubitt , Eli Zaretskii To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 08:36:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1kYOxs-0005p7-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:36:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42608 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYOxr-00051T-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYOwo-0004B4-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:52209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kYOwm-00061o-5F; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.60]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002A0B3A.000000005F9BC249.00001091; Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:35:36 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/30 02:11:49 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258559 Archived-At: * Drew Adams [2020-10-29 10:12]: > >> Anyway, there's a big difference here: in Emacs documentation, > >> every term is explained before it is used, and rarely used terms > >> have cross-references to where they are described. > > > > I bet you can dip into any number of Info nodes where the > > terms "buffer" and "window" are used without definition. > > FWIW - > > I submitted Emacs bug #16333, to request linking first > occurrences (in a node) of words that are defined in > the Glossary to their definitions. > > I finally got around to doing this, in my library > info+.el. (It could be done for vanilla Emacs too.) > ___ > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16333 > > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/info%2b.el Thank you, that is great feature. info+ show buttons with my theme little embossed or opposite of embossed. I hope similar enters Emacs to make terminology easier accessible. -- Jean Louis