GNU bug report logs - #30707
describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 02:59:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:17:57 +0800

I do
(describe-variable (quote browse-url-browser-function))
and see in *Help*:

   browse-url-browser-function is a variable defined in ‘browse-url.el’.
   Its value is ‘browse-url-chromium’
   Original value was
   browse-url-default-browser

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

So the user has to do
(describe-function (quote browse-url-default-browser))
to learn about it, instead of just being able to click it!

See, it really exists:
browse-url-default-browser is a compiled Lisp function in
‘browse-url.el’.
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