Re: Feature request: generate documentation from C files

[Simon Josefsson]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 01:39:19 +0100
>>
>>   Almost all kind of markup
>>   that one might want to use appear to be possible to auto-detect from
>>   a very minimal and natural markup.
>
> We still need some markup for references to other parts of the docs,
> and for references to symbols: names of functions, variables, and
> arguments/meta-syntactic elements.

Yes, although I think %NULL, strlen(), @string etc is less obtrusive
than the texinfo/SGML/whatever markup, within a C source comment.  I
wished for a similar minimal markup for other constructs as well.

>> (*) Mostly because I can M-x man RET on a function to immediately
>> access its documentation.  Nothing like that for info, as far as I
>> know..
>
> Try "C-h TAB" (with point somewhere on the name of a function).

Hm, I just get: C-h TAB (translated from C-h <tab>) is undefined