Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

> 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).


        Stefan