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

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38154: Man-follow-manual-reference could be as sharp as M-x
 man itself
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:45:03 +0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
>> Cc: 38154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:59:16 +0800
>> 
EZ> FWIW, I'm not at all sure.  It's an invalid man page (a.k.a. "bug"),
EZ> so why should we support it?
>> 
>> It's even the way these document pros make their man pages:
>> 
>> $ man perldoc
>> 
>> SEE ALSO
>> perlpod, Pod::Perldoc

EZ> Please report a bug against them.  Not only Emacs has  bugs, and Emacs
EZ> doesn't have to fix the entire world.

"Put your money where your mouth is" and report it on
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/new/choose
I say it is emacs that could be made smarter in such cases.

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