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In order to update the XEmacs lispref.info, they run a processor over the source files, and it extracts the docstrings into a big texi file, with ready-to-paste-in function and variable definitions. Then, they've got to go through the manual's texi source, find the places where function docstrings have been changed during the course of development, and paste the new definitions into place. It would be really cool if instead, they could write a tag there that told the info reader to pull up the docstring for that function or variable, and insert it here. That could be made to work for printed output also, I guess. The main idea is to reduce the maintenence work you have to do. If you change a function's call signature, and update its docstring, that should be all you need to do to have the live documentation also be updated, and a make target ought to then rebuild the more static version of the docs. I really like Windows help... the features it has that I like are the popup glossary entries, and the nice fonts they use. Another neat thing is the ability to embed widgets and pictures. We need that for Emacs/XEmacs/Guild/Gimp/SCWM.