From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info viewer: Links to function documentations?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:15:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rpg7ca9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86blokhh1u.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de
> For example: When I'm writing `command-name' in a mode documentation
> Emacs creates automatically a link to the function documentation. When
> I'm writing the same in an info documentation it is shown as
> ´command-name', a dead string under Emacs' info viewer. And the user
> has to know that typing "C-h f" is accesses this documention.
Info would indeed benefit from better use of hyperlinks (and images).
This will require using a different format, tho, since the Info format
is barely more than plain text.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 10:20 Info viewer: Links to function documentations? H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-03-25 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-25 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-25 16:27 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-03-25 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-25 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-25 18:08 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-03-25 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-29 10:20 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-20 21:23 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
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