michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Your patch is not bad, but it might be better to fix the code
>> that checks for a link.  After all, there are lots of ways
>> to move point to the end of the buffer, and if it looks like
>> there should be a link there, why not make it work as a link?
>
> Well, the link here is, on a GNU system at least, the concatenation of
> the name of the program with its section. Problem is, the program name
> is not always the name of the man page. For instance, zsh uses ZSH as
> program name.
>
> In the GNU man point-of-view, I'm pretty sure this is not meant to be
> a link but a reminder, so we should not use it as such.
>
> The only « other » fix I see is to change this link (detected as the one
> in the footer) to alway point to the current page. However, I don't see
> the use.

Should this be installed on EMACS_22_BASE too ? I'm not aware of the
commit procedure for this branch, and what should go into it.

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