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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 39215@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:03:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iz4kwogmtm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835zh4wxwt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:56:50 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Maybe we should teach info.el to display man pages.  The stand-alone
> Info reader that is part of the Texinfo package does that since time
> immemoriam.

(This seems unrelated to the, IMO totally reasonable, feature request.)

The info reader does a worse job of rendering man pages than the 'man'
program does. I hope Emacs doesn't implement a second (on top of M-x
woman) partial replacement for the man program, when one can just use
M-x man.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-21  8:55 bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-21 16:32   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-21 16:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22  4:03       ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2020-01-22 15:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-23  1:39       ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-23  3:14         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-24  2:58           ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-25  1:07             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25  1:13               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25  2:10                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25  1:32               ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-25  2:10                 ` Stefan Kangas

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