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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 56420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56420: Link to Info manual from describe-package help
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:28:39 +0200

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:32:11 +0530, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com> said:

    Visuwesh> [திங்கள் ஜூலை 11, 2022] Robert Pluim wrote:
    Visuwesh> Perhaps, the same could be said for man pages as well.
    Visuwesh> `man-page(section)' is probably refers to a manpage.  If we want to
    Visuwesh> avoid a lot of false positives, then we can restrict section to be
    Visuwesh> numeric I think?
    >> 
    >> Not all man page sections are numeric

    Visuwesh> Indeed, that's why I said "avoid a lot of false positives."  But IME,
    Visuwesh> the only non-numeric sections I came across were the Perl ones.

But if you restrict to only numeric, youʼd miss those, along with n,
l, and the various 3foo sections. Iʼll admit theyʼre not common.

Robert
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