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Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - ta


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:01:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The new sentence interrupts the continuity, and now "Probably
> introduced at ..." is missing the context and sounds like bad English.
>
> I think it would be better to move the reference to other functions to
> the end of the *Help* buffer text.  After all, it's a kind-of "See
> also", which is normally found at the end.

That's true, but the "probably introduced" bit is the least important
thing in the *Help* buffer, so emphasising it in the current way is
unfortunate.

I think we should move it to the end of the buffer, or hide it by
default (with some button to reveal this and other less-than-vital
stuff).

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