GNU bug report logs - #46731
Clicking on filename in *Help* now just leaves us at the top of the file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:21:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 46731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 46731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46731: Clicking on filename in *Help* now just leaves us at
 the top of the file
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:33:23 +0100
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> In the *Help* buffer we see:
>
>     gnus-article-treat-non-ascii is an interactive Lisp function in
>     ‘gnus-art.el’.
>
>     (gnus-article-treat-non-ascii &optional INTERACTIVE &rest ARGS)
>
>     Translate many Unicode characters into their ASCII equivalents.
>
> OK, we press RETURN on that glowing filename, and instead of whisking us
> to the location of the function in that file, we are simply dropped off
> at the beginning of the file, "and then our taxi speeds away, leaving
> us to hunt for the address ourselves."

Works for me in Emacs 28.  Closing.

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