From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 12106@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12106: 24.1; be able to prevent `help-make-xrefs' from creating a cross ref
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:38:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C4D73809B2A47ECAAAEA2590560911F@us.oracle.com> (raw)
I would like some easy way to prevent `help-make-xrefs' from turning a
given `...' into a cross reference (link).
If I want to refer to a function or whatever without linking to
what Emacs thinks is the proper doc for it, what can I do? The
current handling of `...' is too black-and-white. There should
be some way to turn off link a particular instance of `...'.
E.g., we should be able to put something in the doc string that
(a) is not, itself, displayed and (b) prevents `help-make-xrefs'
from creating a link for that `...' occurrence.
If we did not care about making the indication invisible then it
might be enough to change, say, `help-xref-symbol-regexp' to this:
"\\(\\<\\(\\(variable\\|option\\)\\|\\(function\\|command\\)\\|\
\\(face\\)\\|\\(symbol\\|program\\|property\\)\\|\
\\(source \\(?:code \\)?\\(?:of\\|for\\)\\)\\)[ \n]+\\)?\
[^\\]`\\(\\sw\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)'"
^^^^^
I.e., just let a backslash escape `...' from linking. But that
puts a `\' in the output buffer as well. (Perhaps it could be
made invisible?)
Anyway, I am not proposing the solution, I'm just filing the
enhancement request.
In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'
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2012-07-31 18:38 Drew Adams [this message]
2022-05-07 10:47 ` bug#12106: 24.1; be able to prevent `help-make-xrefs' from creating a cross ref Lars Ingebrigtsen
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