* bug#1542: link emacs functions in Info
@ 2008-12-12 0:31 jidanni
2019-09-30 7:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: jidanni @ 2008-12-12 0:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
I was reading e.g., (info "(gnus)RSS"):
`nnrss-use-local'
If you set `nnrss-use-local' to `t', `nnrss' will read the feeds
from local files in `nnrss-directory'. You can use the command
`nnrss-generate-download-script' to generate a download script
using `wget'.
And to learn more about nnrss-generate-download-script, I have to
place the cursor on it, and do C-h f.
I wish I could just TAB to it and hit RET.
Or maybe that would be a special case of using emacs when reading about emacs.
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2008-12-12 0:31 bug#1542: link emacs functions in Info jidanni
@ 2019-09-30 7:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-09-30 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jidanni; +Cc: 1542
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> I was reading e.g., (info "(gnus)RSS"):
> `nnrss-use-local'
> If you set `nnrss-use-local' to `t', `nnrss' will read the feeds
> from local files in `nnrss-directory'. You can use the command
> `nnrss-generate-download-script' to generate a download script
> using `wget'.
>
> And to learn more about nnrss-generate-download-script, I have to
> place the cursor on it, and do C-h f.
>
> I wish I could just TAB to it and hit RET.
>
> Or maybe that would be a special case of using emacs when reading
> about emacs.
I think that would be a bit surprising for TAB and RET to work like that
in Info buffers -- it'd take you out if Info mode, which is usually not
what we want. So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
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* bug#1542: link emacs functions in Info
2019-09-30 7:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-09-30 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-09-30 7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 1542, jidanni
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:23:17 +0200
> Cc: 1542@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>
> > I was reading e.g., (info "(gnus)RSS"):
> > `nnrss-use-local'
> > If you set `nnrss-use-local' to `t', `nnrss' will read the feeds
> > from local files in `nnrss-directory'. You can use the command
> > `nnrss-generate-download-script' to generate a download script
> > using `wget'.
> >
> > And to learn more about nnrss-generate-download-script, I have to
> > place the cursor on it, and do C-h f.
> >
> > I wish I could just TAB to it and hit RET.
> >
> > Or maybe that would be a special case of using emacs when reading
> > about emacs.
>
> I think that would be a bit surprising for TAB and RET to work like that
> in Info buffers -- it'd take you out if Info mode, which is usually not
> what we want.
A good Info manual should have a cross-reference right after the name
of the function/variable, unless they are described in the same node.
So yes, going to the *Help* buffer from there would be wrong.
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