From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Changes in revision 114466 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380604581 26511 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 05:16:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:16:21 +0000 (UTC) To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 07:16:22 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 1VQsJo-0002XI-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:16:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsJo-0000L7-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsJd-0000Ka-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsJU-0007oa-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQsJU-0007oW-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r915FwGQ003004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:15:59 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r915FvC4029165 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:15:58 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r915FvGn011464; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 05:15:57 GMT In-Reply-To: <87r4c5egfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:163763 Archived-At: > > What we might want/need (I have proposed this several times, and so ha= ve > > 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 wou= ld > > be good to generalize it, or at least make use of it more. >=20 > 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.