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28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44929-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44929: 28.0.50; Info-next-reference skips next reference
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:10:57 -0800 (PST)

> > AFAIU, your expectation is wrong: TAB runs the command
> > Info-next-reference, where the "next" part means "not the current
> > one".  For the "current" reference, press RET.
> 
> I didn't know that RET works anywhere on the line (or lines) of the
> menu item, not just on the link, and it never occurred to me to try.

How about improving `C-h k RET' here, to let
users know that?  Neither the command name
nor the doc string really suggests that.  IOW,
can we please elaborate about "near point"?

What's more, though some of the doc string says
"near point", other parts say "on".

 "If point is on a reference..."
 "If point is in a menu item..."

And this mistakenly says that "point" is "on",
or "in" something, whereas point is a position,
not something that is at, on, or in something
else.  It's the other way around: something is
_at_ a position (such as point).

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