Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> AFAIK your code adds links to `describe-<foo>` commands, basically.
>> This is great for Emacs documentation, but not for all the Info pages
>> that document non-Emacs packages (Make, glibc, LaTeX, you name it).
>>
>> Not sure how to distinguish those two different cases.
>
> One could perhaps create a new defvar with a list of manuals for which
> to enable this, and disable it in all other cases.  Perhaps more
> elegantly, one could add links only when there is a corresponding
> symbol in the obarray.  Just two ideas.

The latter seems to me how help-mode.el implemented linking.  And since
I - more or less literally - copied the relevant code, only defined
symbols are linked in an info buffer.

       Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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