From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 39215@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:45:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftg7v6kf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iz4kwogmtm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:03:01 -0500)
> 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
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> (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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-21 8:55 bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 16:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 4:03 ` Glenn Morris
2020-01-22 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-01-23 1:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-23 3:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-24 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-25 1:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 1:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25 2:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 1:32 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-25 2:10 ` Stefan Kangas
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