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bug#17310: 24.3; clarify emacsclient(1) manpage link to "(emacs)Emacs Se


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: bug#17310: 24.3; clarify emacsclient(1) manpage link to "(emacs)Emacs Server"
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:15:53 -0400
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

Samuel Bronson wrote:

> It would be helpful if the manpage for emacsclient had a more prominent
> (i.e. bold) and more explicit link to (info "(emacs)Emacs Server"),
> perhaps using something like the included patch.

Thanks for the patch, but IMO it's not worth applying.
It's not the job of every man page to explain how to use info.

> *** /home/naesten/hacking/emacsclient.orig.1  2014-04-21 13:04:31.000000000 
> -0400
> --- /home/naesten/hacking/emacsclient.1       2014-04-21 13:37:07.000000000 
> -0400
> ***************
> *** 93,99 ****
>   .SH "SEE ALSO"
>   The program is documented fully in
>   .IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
> ! available via the Info system.
>   .SH AUTHOR
>   This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>,
>   for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
> --- 93,108 ----
>   .SH "SEE ALSO"
>   The program is documented fully in
>   .IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
> ! available via the Info system.  You should be able to reach it using the
> ! shell command
> ! .IP
> ! .B info emacs \(aqEmacs Server\(aq
> ! .PP
> ! or by evaluating
> ! .IP
> ! .B (info \(dq(emacs)Emacs Server\(dq)
> ! .PP
> ! in Emacs.
>   .SH AUTHOR





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