Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Brady Montz]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > 2. Once I've found a reference to it (an info page, the doc string,
> >    the customize gunk), I want better cross referencing.
> > 
> >    We're not too far off here. A "see also" section to the doc strings
> >    could be nice.
> 
> Are you familiar with the cross-references in GNU Emacs doc strings?  
> (I'm not sure if that feature exists in XEmacs.)  They are displayed in a 
> different face, and you can click on them (or type RET with point on 
> them) to follow the reference.  These references are used for related 
> variables and functions and for showing the function's source, for 
> example.

Yeah, not too far off here. That is nice, but I've seen few docstrings
that make much use of it. 

-- 
 Brady Montz
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