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RE: Changes in revision 114466
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Changes in revision 114466 |
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Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:15:56 -0700 (PDT) |
> > 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.