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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 46702@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:55:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838s7gw0zf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ki4kuy8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon,  22 Feb 2021 16:01:35 +0100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:01:35 +0100
> Cc: 46702@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> (defun help-make-xrefs (&optional buffer)
> [...]
>       (goto-char (point-min))
>       ;; Skip the header-type info, though it might be useful to parse
>       ;; it at some stage (e.g. "function in `library'").
>       (forward-paragraph)
> 
> Anybody know what the rationale behind this is?  I in complex values,
> there may be false positives, but...  I tried just removing that bit and
> looking at a couple of variables, and it fixes the problem described
> here, and I didn't see any regressions.

I think we should instead insert a newline before "Its value is...".
There's absolutely no need for it to follow the initial text.  This
fixes the problem without doing anything with the proverbial first
paragraph.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22  6:05 bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-22  8:26   ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:38     ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:55   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-22 21:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 21:52       ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 21:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 22:08           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23  3:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23  7:09           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23 15:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:09               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 16:29                 ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-24 16:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:59                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 17:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-25 15:15                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-25 15:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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