From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:32:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87h80pmbn5.fsf@marxist.se> <83iml4x1mc.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="29910"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 39215@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 17:33:47 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1itwTJ-0007ZE-TC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:33:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57820 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itwTI-0001db-Fn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itwSd-00014O-EL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itwSc-0006UI-9S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itwSc-0006U8-5i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itwSc-0006Dh-42 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:33:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 39215 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 39215-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B39215.157962437923894 (code B ref 39215); Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 39215) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Jan 2020 16:32:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48316 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itwSY-0006DK-Tq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pg1-f176.google.com ([209.85.215.176]:44207) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itwST-0006Cr-K9 for 39215@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pg1-f176.google.com with SMTP id x7so1748702pgl.11 for <39215@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:32:53 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=3W3Bj/Tr4PxWruk7D0wY9l9FANWXYNOO/Jq+utXfC4M=; b=fnixFGfap4iZayZpSbWI+dVvkWqq3OYbcOz4lRAi5O+IwHu9/abH1cZXmXl8PJ5yfp i2W0WQcJgyaiJ6i9pCviiIe6soLfkgVaUoUiEA986p3X+D1UUPWC4X/N8W8ebNOKEVyP 0QnCU4CiBGwAIp/mj45lXoaEWca2gru/BCaZ4DulxeCIO3ouYdiCOYT9CBzv3Oebf587 TSTu60Tw8AvUQpDASKwjz84WlpRt4vjn1NoDaD9WdrW8/n1el7dviGF73I37RFDsqvFU q9TFFx0FzMvk/4BVF4PLv35Z1b72MCX7cD9tLpKcD0CQompz6gQiWKmGMSk8kx1AcS1x RowQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV5bScctcLTBhTWSiAgiUyTEtEGd5DHEzcYvH0mYLKSZQ9ysSsV Za5brMDBpYtjijcvxfCaX4fhCPrJGed0wVs1Y2k= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwjDSzRTrFWcwPzyvFM/oljXF4RXLBky37vc7fH8do2JUzZIbpaiz696BAAORFSfU8ey/5WTuJ1h4lMvJxNbGA= X-Received: by 2002:a63:d411:: with SMTP id a17mr6639021pgh.333.1579624367777; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:32:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83iml4x1mc.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:175004 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > 'find' has an Info manual: find.info. Why not use a hyperlink to that > instead, something we already support? Many utilities have similar > Info manuals, and the glibc has an Info manual as well. I was looking for something which would work also with BSD find (or indeed any find not from GNU findutils). My idea was to specify both. But that's just one example. Most non-GNU software don't use texinfo. They often have man pages. It would be useful to be able to add links to them. > Nitpicking: let's not call Info manuals "pages". They are not like > "man pages", which are a collection of short concise usage > descriptions. Sure, I'll try to remember to say "info manuals" in our documentation and sources. (FWIW, I think getting people to stop using that vocabulary is going to be an uphill battle, since it is so ubiquitous. We even use this nomenclature in some places in Emacs itself. Try grepping for "info pages" in our sources.) Best regards, Stefan Kangas