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glossary terms linked
From: |
Jean Louis |
Subject: |
glossary terms linked |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:35:30 +0300 |
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Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) |
* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2020-10-29 10:12]:
> >> Anyway, there's a big difference here: in Emacs documentation,
> >> every term is explained before it is used, and rarely used terms
> >> have cross-references to where they are described.
> >
> > I bet you can dip into any number of Info nodes where the
> > terms "buffer" and "window" are used without definition.
>
> FWIW -
>
> I submitted Emacs bug #16333, to request linking first
> occurrences (in a node) of words that are defined in
> the Glossary to their definitions.
>
> I finally got around to doing this, in my library
> info+.el. (It could be done for vanilla Emacs too.)
> ___
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16333
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/info%2b.el
Thank you, that is great feature.
info+ show buttons with my theme little embossed or opposite of
embossed.
I hope similar enters Emacs to make terminology easier accessible.
--
Jean Louis