From 31229f536627fbb0e7dadd3f60be4d94119b9f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dieter Wilhelm Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:25:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Entry for Info viewer providing links from symbols (bug#60587) *etc/NEWS: Mention implementation --- etc/NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 068f7a27db8..c193b59647a 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ the new argument non-nil, it will use a new buffer instead. Interactively, invoke 'eww-open-file' with a prefix argument to activate this behavior. +** Info + +*** Info viewer provides now links from symbols to their help documentation. +Links from quoted `symbol' names, like names of variables, functions +and faces, are pointing to their *Help* documentation. If you want to +disable such links - in addition to the regular Info cross references +- you can set the variable `info-make-xref-flag' to nil. + * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 30.1 -- 2.34.1