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describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 30707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:56:15 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:
>
>>    browse-url-browser-function is a variable defined in ‘browse-url.el’.
>>    Its value is ‘browse-url-chromium’

>> The problem is browse-url-default-browser should be a blue link, but was
>> not detected as linkable.

> This sounds reasonable, but I don't think it is.  :-)
> `browse-url-default-browser' is just a symbol that that variable had as
> a value.  Yes, it's a symbol that refers to a function, but in general,
> the doc machinery doesn't know that that's how it's going to be used; it
> might be a total coincidence.  (Especially with shorter symbols.)

Even if it is just a coincidence, would it hurt to linkify it?

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