Subject: Re: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:45:04 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:03:01 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should teach info.el to display man pages.  The stand-alone
> > Info reader that is part of the Texinfo package does that since time
> > immemoriam.
> 
> (This seems unrelated to the, IMO totally reasonable, feature request.)

My reasoning was that if info.el could do that, then a hyperlink like
`(find)' would "just work", without a need to invent yet another magic
sequence of characters.