Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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?

+1 from me.  Perhaps some users will want a toggle.

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Basil