From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:36:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83iml4x1mc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h80pmbn5.fsf@marxist.se> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="27203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 39215@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 16:37:19 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1itvae-0006oI-4l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:37:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itvad-0007pT-0x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itvaR-0007mM-4b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itvaQ-00014d-5X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itvaQ-00014R-2S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itvaP-0004bN-Sw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:37:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 39215 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 39215-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B39215.157962100017651 (code B ref 39215); Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 39215) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Jan 2020 15:36:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48286 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itva4-0004ad-0G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47177) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itva2-0004aM-Le for 39215@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itvZx-0000ZG-8T; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1814 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1itvZw-0001Q1-Cf; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:36:32 -0500 In-reply-to: <87h80pmbn5.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:55:42 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:175000 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:55:42 +0100 > > Severity: wishlist > > Please add the possibility to write in doc strings: > > man page `find' > > and have it automatically converted into a hyperlink which will open > up M-x man and visit the specified man page. 'find' has an Info manual: find.info. Why not use a hyperlink to that instead, something we already support? Many utilities have similar Info manuals, and the glibc has an Info manual as well. > The proposed feature complements the already existing functionality > with hyperlinks to info pages.[1] Nitpicking: let's not call Info manuals "pages". They are not like "man pages", which are a collection of short concise usage descriptions.