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31.0.50; Links to minor mode variables bring to minor mode (the function)

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Message #10 received at 71815-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>, 71815-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#71815: 31.0.50; Links to minor mode variables bring to minor
 mode (the function)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:19:02 +0000

Version: 30.1

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net> writes:

> When a minor-mode docstring doesn't specify what ARG does, a generic
> mode is added to this docstring, this additional docstring is specified
> in `easy-mmode--arg-docstring` and contains this sentence:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
> evaluate `%s'.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When hitting RET on this link to the mode variable from the docstring,
> the link brings back to this same docstring i.e. the function.
>
> For example try C-h f bug-reference-mode and hit RET on the link to
> `bug-reference-mode', it bring back to this same docstring.
>
> A possible fix is specifying the word "variable" before the link in
> `easy-mmode--arg-docstring`:
>
> @@ -94 +94 @@
> -evaluate `%s'.
> +evaluate the variable `%s'.

Thanks, fixed on emacs-30.

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