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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	56420@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56420: Link to Info manual from describe-package help
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:59:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735f8geb1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jzo562v.fsf@gmail.com> (Visuwesh's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:22:56 +0530")

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:22:56 +0530, Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> said:

    Visuwesh> [திங்கள் ஜூலை 11, 2022] Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
    >> But this reminds me -- why are we so strict about the Info links,
    >> anyway?  Could `(foo) Bar' in a doc string be anything but a manual
    >> reference?

    Visuwesh> Perhaps, the same could be said for man pages as well.
    Visuwesh> `man-page(section)' is probably refers to a manpage.  If we want to
    Visuwesh> avoid a lot of false positives, then we can restrict section to be
    Visuwesh> numeric I think?

Not all man page sections are numeric

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06 10:28 bug#56420: Link to Info manual from describe-package help Stefan Kangas
2022-07-06 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-06 12:36   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-07  7:41     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-07 21:28       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-11  9:47         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-11  9:52           ` Visuwesh
2022-07-11  9:59             ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-07-11 10:02               ` Visuwesh
2022-07-11 10:28                 ` Robert Pluim

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