Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Jean Louis]

* Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2020-10-20 16:23]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-09-29 17:12]:
> >> > Search documentation is separate feature from looking up any technical
> >> > or special word in glossary
> >> 
> >> No, I think it's quite related, especially since the Glossary is part
> >> of the manual.
> >
> > It is related. Let me express myself better, I am proposing a
> > function, something like a long click or key press that is then
> > searching in the glossary. Maybe underlying Lisp functions can be used
> > for that feature.
> 
> Would it be possible to make something like Helm occur where I can type
> a term as pattern in minibuffer and then helm will show different hits
> in a buffer; say something like those ambigious names I don't remember
> like dired-file-name-at-point and dired-filename-at-point; or if there
> is a function and local varaible with same name; so that docs for
> all hits are shown in an helm occur buffer, which I can easiry navigate
> when I wish just to skim over what function does? I would prefer that to
> C-h f or C-h v.

You just enable helm-mode and do C-h f

Then install Hyperbole package from GNU ELPA and use Action key to
jump to function definitions, very handy! It has also other look up
functions.

> It is already really awesome to be able to see parameters shown on
> modeline when I call a function in minibuffer; and jumping into doch
> with C-h ... when I wish to test how something works or see the
> implementation in another window is indespensible. I just miss something
> to look up docs when I need to clear up what something was when I know
> how use it but have maybe forgotten some details (like did I want
> string-replace or replace-string? ). Maybe there is already something
> like that, I am just not aware of it?
> 
> Would be cool for docs, but it would be also very cool for a dictionary
> in general; say for pulling a description of a word from different
> dictionaries.

It would be.