Subject: Re: bug#24842: bug#9445: 24.0.50; `help-make-xrefs' has bad logic

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:55:20 +0200

Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> writes:

> But the recipe Lars gave doesn't quite match the description Drew gave,
> IIUC: if in the recipe you change the first occurrence of `functions' to
> `function', then eval and do `C-h v foo', then the first occurrence of
> `foo2' in the doc string is not turned into a link.  Isn't that what the
> problem was, and still is?

Yup.  So here's the recipe to reproduce the problem:

(defun foo1 ())
(defvar foo2 ())

(defvar foo nil
  "
`foo1'\t- on-demand action function
`foo2'")

So I'm reopening the bug report.

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