Re: (emacs) Intro [was: Making Emacs popular again with a video]

[Andreas Röhler]

On 28.05.20 09:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 03:21:34 +0200 (CEST)
> > Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > From: excalamus--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > First, I think it oversells the accessibility of the documentation.
> > The Emacs documentation is extensive and well written.  However, I
> > find it quite difficult to navigate to a concept if that thing isn't a
> > function or variable.  I have been a beginner and asked myself, "What
> > is a cons cell?".  I found then, as I often still do, that leaving
> > Emacs (to use a web browser) yields results fast enough to not use
> > Emacs itself.  Ironically, I most often wind up at the gnu.org html
> > documentation.
> Are you aware of the 'i' command in Info, and using it?

Get an error at the top of Info - works only inside Elisp


>    Because its
> purpose is precisely to help in the situations like you describe.  For
> example, "what is a cons cell?" is immediately answered by typing this
> in Info:
>
>    i cons cell RET
>
> or even
>
>    i cons RET
>
> Maybe we should have an interactive command that would let users type
> the likes of "what is a cons cell" and translate that to the
> appropriate Info-index command?  Because this extremely useful command
> seems to be unknown and under-used.

Think that would be helpful.