GNU bug report logs - #6601
help-make-xref doesn't buttonize `help-variable-def' and per `help-xref-symbol-regexp'

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Nathanael Schweers <NSchweers <at> mailbox.org>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 24309-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24309: 25.1; Problem in variable reference in docstrings.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:50:08 +0000

tags 24309 fixed
close 24309 28.1
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
>
>> My personal motivation is that I would like functions from the Dash
>> package (that start with hyphens), as well as built-in arithmetic
>> operators, hyperlinked in Help buffers.
>>
>> The attached patch matches quoted symbol names with one or more
>> characters starting with either word or symbol syntax in Lisp docstrings
>> and Help buffers.  WDYT?
>
> Makes sense to me.

Thanks, pushed to master.

Hyperlink symbol names without word syntax in Help
25dadca0d1 2021-01-10 13:37:38 +0000
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=25dadca0d175aa7f9f1654314f90af64cdcb68fd

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Basil

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