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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, 39215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:45:04 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,  39215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.
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