GNU bug report logs - #36927
26.2.90; include stdarg.h is without hyperlinking on vfprintf's manpage

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: VanL <van <at> scratch.space>
Cc: 36927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36927: 26.2.90;
 include stdarg.h is without hyperlinking on vfprintf's manpage
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:56:46 +0300

On August 6, 2019 5:36:17 AM GMT+03:00, VanL <van <at> scratch.space> wrote:
> 
> > On 6 Aug 2019, at 02:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> 1. M-x man RET vfprintf
> >> 2. on line 32 see #include <stdarg.h> which is without hyperlinking
> > 
> > For some reason, we don't put a button on the second #include.
> 
> The buttoning needs to be more aggressive.

You mean, like making every word a button?

> > Interestingly enough, I can reproduce this on GNU/Linux, but not on
> > MS-Windows, even if I produce the formatted man page on GNU/Linux
> and
> > then display it on Windows.  So I guess the problem is somehow
> related
> > to the slightly  different scripts we use to massage the man page
> for
> > display.
> 
> Three variants of bsd platform reproduces this like GNU/Linux.

All Posix platforms use the same script to massage the 'man' output, so this is hardly surprising.

Do you actually see what causes the failure to put a button on the second include?

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