bug#64960: Documentation for copy-sequence

[uzibalqa]

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On Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 at 11:28 AM, Michael Heerdegen 
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:


> uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
> editors" bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org writes:
> 
> > "The elements of a list, vector or record are not copied; they are
> > shared with the original."
> > 
> > Adding additional wording that it means that not everything is
> > actually copied.
> > Some aspects are actually reference values. Meaning that if you change the
> > copied sequence, you could inadvertently change the original sequence.
> 
> 
> That's the normal behavior in a Lisp, so this belongs into the manual.
> After reading (info "(elisp) Sequence Functions") (where this function
> is introduced) I think, as far as I understand, that that page tries to
> explain this aspect you mention thoroughly. - Michael.

Is it not customary to include any cross references to the relevant parts
of the manual.  The help using 'C-h f' would benefit if there could be
some links that get you to the relevant part of the manual directly.