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* bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help
@ 2021-02-22  6:05 Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
  2021-02-22  8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
  2021-02-22 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2021-02-22  6:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 46702

When I wanted to a check a buffer's mode then I did a C-h v
major-mode to see which mode it is and wanted to jump to its code
to check something. The symbol value was not linked, so I had to
type it to look it up.

Demonstrated here with the scratch buffer, showing that
lisp-interaction-mode is not linked in the second line:

   https://i.imgur.com/KIWQE60.png

It could link to the symbol's help if the value is a symbol to
make looking it up more convenient.

If it's both a function and a variable then it can ask which one
I want to jump to when clicked.





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2021-02-22  6:05 bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-22  8:26   ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:38     ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:55   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 21:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 21:52       ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 21:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 22:08           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23  3:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23  7:09           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23 15:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:09               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 16:29                 ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-24 16:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:59                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 17:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-25 15:15                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-25 15:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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