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bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:36:43 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:55:42 +0100
>
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please add the possibility to write in doc strings:
>
> man page `find'
>
> and have it automatically converted into a hyperlink which will open
> up M-x man and visit the specified man page.
'find' has an Info manual: find.info. Why not use a hyperlink to that
instead, something we already support? Many utilities have similar
Info manuals, and the glibc has an Info manual as well.
> The proposed feature complements the already existing functionality
> with hyperlinks to info pages.[1]
Nitpicking: let's not call Info manuals "pages". They are not like
"man pages", which are a collection of short concise usage
descriptions.