From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16333: 24.3.50; Info manuals: link defined terms to their glossary entries Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:50:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388785883 27480 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 21:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 21:51:23 +0000 (UTC) To: 16333@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 22:51:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1VzCeM-0002OD-F2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:51:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCeM-00036p-4l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:51:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCe9-00036h-Ci for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdz-0003jR-A4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdz-0003jN-62 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdy-0002uq-QY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:51:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 16333 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.138878585311189 (code B ref -1); Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Jan 2014 21:50:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60571 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdo-0002uO-UW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60820) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdm-0002uG-6X for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdc-0003hg-1t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:55660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdb-0003hb-Ta for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdS-00033M-Vv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdJ-0003di-EU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:42076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzCdJ-0003dY-6y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id s03LoJ7D012923 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 21:50:20 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s03LoI9w012210 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 21:50:19 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s03LoIjj027547 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 21:50:18 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:82870 Archived-At: Enhancement request. Inspired from a post on emacs-devel in thread "Apologia for bzr", 2014-01-03, which said, I bet you can dip into any number of Info nodes where the terms "buffer" and "window" are used without definition. That would be a non-issue if such terms were linked (automatically) to their glossary entries. This feature should be optional, and even easy to toggle on/off. The links should be highlighted differently, so users can easily tell that they are glossary links. Info manuals such as the Emacs manual are strong in actually providing an extensive glossary of terms. But it is true that we do not leverage that feature by (a) showing, in the main text, which terms are glossary terms and (b) provide direct links to their definitions. We do provide a (probably little-known, little-used) command, `search-emacs-glossary', that at least takes you to node `Glossary'. But that is only rudimentary help, considering that so much information is already organized to provide users term definitions. What's missing is better access to those, and more visibility for them. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-01-01 on ODIEONE Bzr revision: 115827 eggert@cs.ucla.edu-20140101192741-bi5hb4xb4kdi2zpw Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --prefix=3D/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=3Dyes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=3D-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=3D-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib CPPFLAGS=3D-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'