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Pressing RET on header line of help buffer describing a lisp entity should go to the source

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From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
To: emacsq via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>, 55019 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55019: Pressing RET on header line of help buffer
 describing a lisp entity should go to the source
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:33:34 +0200

emacsq via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> E.g. take describe-function: diff
>
> The first line:
>
> diff is an autoloaded interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘diff.el’.
>
> The line describes what this entity is and where it is defined. If I want to look it up, then I have to press TAB to go to the link and then RET.
>
> Since RET does not do anything useful on help text anyway, it's more
> convenient if RET goes to the source when pressed anywhere on the
> opening text describing the entity, without having to press TAB first.

Since Emacs 28.1, you can press "s" in the *Help* buffer to go directly
to the source.

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