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24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where a variable is described

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual
	where a variable is described
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:19:36 +0100

Severity: wishlist

Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
F') is to commands.

That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.

This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).


In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2012-11-18 on MS-W7-DANI
Bzr revision: 110940 cyd <at> gnu.org-20121118053813-ijg6257029399jtu
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
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-- 
Dani Moncayo

Message #8 received at 12924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Dani Moncayo'" <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>, <12924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#12924: 24.3.50;
	Request: Provide a command to show the node in the manual where
	avariable is described
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:04:09 -0800

> Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
> that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
> F') is to commands.
> 
> That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
> node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.
> 
> This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
> current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
> keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).

See also:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-06/msg00368.html

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HelpPlus#toc1

Message #11 received at 12924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12924: 24.3.50; Request: Provide a command to show the node
 in the manual where a variable is described
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:07:33 +0200

Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Provide a command `Info-goto-emacs-variable-node', bound to `C-h V',
> that be to variables as `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' (bound to `C-h
> F') is to commands.
>
> That is: `C-h V search-whitespace-regexp' would take me to the info
> node "(emacs) Special Isearch", where this variable is explained.
>
> This would be a useful feature, and would fit quite well in the
> current scheme of help commands (`C-h f/F' for commands; `C-h k/K' for
> keys; and now `C-h v/V' for variables).

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

`C-h V' is taken by `describe-variable' these days, and there's also
`C-h S' to lookup a symbol in the manuals.  I think that adding a new
command to lookup variables, too, would probably be overkill, since
there's not that much overlap between user variables and other symbols
in the manual, usually.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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