RE: Changes in revision 114466

[Drew Adams]

> >  > 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.

Here is a previous discussion of this, FWIW.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-01/msg00938.html