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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | RE: How to make Emacs popular again. |
Date: | Thu, 08 Oct 2020 22:01:18 +0000 |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) |
C-h f kill-line put point somewhere on 'kill-line' in the docstring C-h S Now making that more widely known would help, I think.Yes. A start is to what I do in `help-mode+.el': change the help-echo on a linked symbol, so it includes mention of `C-h S'. This trivial change could be made to `help-mode.el'.IOW, instead of just "mouse-2, RET: describe this symbol" say: "mouse-2, RET: describe, C-h S RET: check manual"
This help-echo is not present in all help buffers, I see it only in C-h m (describe-mode) buffers. And it is necessary to put point on the symbol before pressing C-h S RET.
Wouldn't a "See also chapter N ZZZZ in the Emacs manual." and/or "For programmers, see also chapter N ZZZZ in the Emacs Lisp manual." (with hyperlinks) at the end of ordinary help buffers be much more useful? I can only speak for myself, but this is what I would have found useful when I started using Emacs.
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