Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:22:01 +0000, Gregory Heytings via "Emacs 
>>>>> development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> said:

    >>> I also didn't read the manual very often, because I didn't find it
    >>> easily.
    >> 
    >> Can you suggest a way to make that easier for others in the future?
    >> 

    Emacs> My suggestion would be to add links in the docstrings to the relevant
    Emacs> chapter in the Emacs and Emacs Lisp manuals.  Three examples:

    Emacs> kill-line would have a link to (info "(emacs)Killing")
    Emacs> kill-buffer would have two links, one to (info "(emacs)Buffers") and 
another to (info "(elisp)Buffers")
    Emacs> call-process would have a link to (info "(elisp)Processes")

    Emacs> I think a link to the relevant chapter, as in the examples above, is
    Emacs> better than a link to the relevant section or subsection.  With this,
    Emacs> users who follow that link would find more information about the
    Emacs> general context of the command or function, and not just a similar
    Emacs> documentation.

Try

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.

Robert
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