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[PATCHES] Buttons in man pages

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Message #8 received at 19359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: ibeas <at> gmx.com (Álvar Ibeas)
Cc: 19359 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19359: [PATCHES] Buttons in man pages
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:23:28 +0100

ibeas <at> gmx.com (Álvar Ibeas) writes:

> 1. If a reference to another man page starts a line and the previous
>    line has some text, its last word is included in the button. Also,
>    the link follows the whole string. For instance:
>
>           Introduction, history and further readings:
>               roff(7).
>
>    Here, the button tries to fetch the man page `readings:roff(7)'.
>
>    The proposed (and lazy) patch_a doesn't allow references spanning
>    several lines.

This will break word-wrapped references, see bug#6289.

Andreas.

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