From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Changes in revision 114466
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:15:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe13424f-f4c8-47f8-9240-62ef57703e58@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4c5egfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> > 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).
GNU Emacs has `info-lookup-symbol', which is bound to `C-h S' globally,
so you can use it anywhere. But users are not necessarily aware of it.
It would be good to provide explicit (visible) links for some symbols
in some doc strings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.53349.1380335551.10747.emacs-diffs@gnu.org>
2013-09-28 7:46 ` Changes in revision 114466 Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-28 22:30 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-29 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-29 7:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-09-30 4:55 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-09-30 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-30 10:29 ` Stephen Berman
2013-09-30 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-30 15:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-01 2:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-30 11:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-30 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83k3hye2uq.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-30 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 3:40 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-01 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-01 5:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-10-01 5:27 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 6:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-01 7:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-01 8:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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