RE: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Drew Adams]

> >> We could add a "View in Manual" button in Help buffers if info-lookup
> >> says that the symbol is in the Emacs Lisp Info index.
> 
> Yes, it should be fairly easy to do using the
> `help-fns-describe-*-functions` hooks.

That won't help with variable, face, etc. help.

> > For interactive functions (a.k.a. "commands"), there's an ambiguity
> > here: should the link lead to the Emacs user manual or to the Emacs
> > Lisp Reference manual?  We could show both, but that could confuse
> > users (as opposed to Lisp programmers).
> 
> I think something like:
> 
>     Also documented in the >Emacs user's manual<.
>     Also documented in the >ELisp programmer's reference<.
> 
> should be clear enough (where >...< is meant to delimit the hyperlink).

That won't help with functions (vars, faces, etc.)
covered in other manuals: CL, Tramp, Org, Dired-X,
Calc, Ediff, etc.