GNU bug report logs - #56420
Link to Info manual from describe-package help

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 10:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 56420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#56420: Link to Info manual from describe-package help
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:22:56 +0530
[திங்கள் ஜூலை 11, 2022] Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> But this reminds me -- why are we so strict about the Info links,
> anyway?  Could `(foo) Bar' in a doc string be anything but a manual
> reference?

Perhaps, the same could be said for man pages as well.
`man-page(section)' is probably refers to a manpage.  If we want to
avoid a lot of false positives, then we can restrict section to be
numeric I think?




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