GNU bug report logs - #39215
Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 39215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
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.)

The info reader does a worse job of rendering man pages than the 'man'
program does. I hope Emacs doesn't implement a second (on top of M-x
woman) partial replacement for the man program, when one can just use
M-x man.

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