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bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
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From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Subject: |
bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings |
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Date: |
Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:45:04 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 39215@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:03:01 -0500
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> > Maybe we should teach info.el to display man pages. The stand-alone
> > Info reader that is part of the Texinfo package does that since time
> > immemoriam.
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> (This seems unrelated to the, IMO totally reasonable, feature request.)
My reasoning was that if info.el could do that, then a hyperlink like
`(find)' would "just work", without a need to invent yet another magic
sequence of characters.