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bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:28:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> I do
> (describe-variable (quote browse-url-browser-function))
> and see in *Help*:
>
> browse-url-browser-function is a variable defined in ‘browse-url.el’.
> Its value is ‘browse-url-chromium’
> Original value was
> browse-url-default-browser
>
> The problem is browse-url-default-browser should be a blue link, but was
> not detected as linkable.
>
> So the user has to do
> (describe-function (quote browse-url-default-browser))
> to learn about it, instead of just being able to click it!
This sounds reasonable, but I don't think it is. :-)
`browse-url-default-browser' is just a symbol that that variable had as
a value. Yes, it's a symbol that refers to a function, but in general,
the doc machinery doesn't know that that's how it's going to be used; it
might be a total coincidence. (Especially with shorter symbols.)
So I'm closing this bug report.
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