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Man-follow-manual-reference could be as sharp as M-x man itself

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#38154: Man-follow-manual-reference could be as sharp as M-x man itself
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:57:31 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Sure, I'll tell the authors to use
>> 
>>    SEE ALSO
>>            v.segment(1grass), v.split(1grass), v.to.rast(1grass), v.to.db(1grass)
>> 
>> but in the meantime, Man-follow-manual-reference should be beefed up...
>
> FWIW, I'm not at all sure.  It's an invalid man page (a.k.a. "bug"),
> so why should we support it?

Yeah, I don't think Man-follow-manual-reference should guess that much
here.  It makes sense for M-x man to guess though, so I don't think
there's anything to fix here, and I'm closing this bug report.

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