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link emacs functions in Info

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 1542 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1542: link emacs functions in Info
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:23:17 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> I was reading e.g., (info "(gnus)RSS"):
> `nnrss-use-local'
>      If you set `nnrss-use-local' to `t', `nnrss' will read the feeds
>      from local files in `nnrss-directory'.  You can use the command
>      `nnrss-generate-download-script' to generate a download script
>      using `wget'.
>
> And to learn more about nnrss-generate-download-script, I have to
> place the cursor on it, and do C-h f.
>
> I wish I could just TAB to it and hit RET.
>
> Or maybe that would be a special case of using emacs when reading
> about emacs.

I think that would be a bit surprising for TAB and RET to work like that
in Info buffers -- it'd take you out if Info mode, which is usually not
what we want.  So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".

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