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30.0.50; Info pages are lacking links from symbol names to the symbol's help documentation

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From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 60587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#60587: Patch for adding links to symbols' help documentation
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:53:23 +0100

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Finally, this needs additions to the user manual and NEWS.

Do you think about Emacs' Info manual?  My feeling is that it could be
fitting to explain the additional linking capability here:

(info "(info) Help-Xref").

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From 31229f536627fbb0e7dadd3f60be4d94119b9f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:25:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Entry for Info viewer providing links from symbols
 (bug#60587)

*etc/NEWS: Mention implementation
---
 etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 068f7a27db8..c193b59647a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ the new argument non-nil, it will use a new buffer instead.
 Interactively, invoke 'eww-open-file' with a prefix argument to
 activate this behavior.
 
+** Info
+
+*** Info viewer provides now links from symbols to their help documentation.
+Links from quoted `symbol' names, like names of variables, functions
+and faces, are pointing to their *Help* documentation. If you want to
+disable such links - in addition to the regular Info cross references
+- you can set the variable `info-make-xref-flag' to nil.
+
 
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 30.1
 
-- 
2.34.1

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-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany

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