Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:38:53 +0200
> 
> I think that info documentation would be even better if there were links
> to the function and variable documentation along the line of
> help-mode.el.  As a proof of concept I extended info.el so that Emacs'
> Info viewer exhibits links to most symbol definitions (when they are
> `quoted' in the documentation).
> 
> When looking at a few Elisp and Emacs pages the verbosity and redundancy
> of these automatic links seems not to be disturbing or too distracting.
> 
> Maybe this draft can be extended so that references to customisation
> buffers are working as well (as is asked for in the TODO file)...
> 
> What are your ideas?

I think this could be a useful feature, thanks1.

What do others think?