From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 62300@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62300: 29.0.60; No hyperlinks for some symbols in *Help* buffers
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:11:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lejq6ygh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsfdzglj8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:55:40 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 62300@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:55:40 -0400
>
> >> emacs -Q
> >> C-h f global-text-scale-adjust RET
> >>
> >> Observe that in the *Help* buffer the variable
> >> global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames does not have the link
> >> appearance. This is because:
> >>
> >> (boundp 'global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames) => nil
>
> `help-definition-prefixes` and friends
> (`help-enable-completion-autoload`, ...) are the result of a tradeoff:
> we offer to autoload files "on demand" but the "demand" is often
> vague/implicit, so we have to judge when the demand is clear enough to
> justify loading a file and when it's not.
>
> If we're too trigger happy, we can end up auto-loading all the .el files
> in sight, making Emacs unnecessarily bigger&slower (and increasing the
> risk that we bump into a file that breaks the convention, such as
> `c-ts-mode`).
>
> In this case, `global-text-scale-adjust` has an explicit autoload in
> `loaddefs.el` so we already have the docstring needed to display
> `C-h f global-text-scale-adjust RET` without having to load
> `face-remap.el`, so `help-enable-completion-autoload` doesn't load
> `face-remap.el`.
So you are saying that the only way of having
global-text-scale-adjust-resizes-frames decorated as a link is to
autoload it? Even though autoloading defcustoms is frowned upon? Or
is there a better way?
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 18:34 bug#62300: 29.0.60; No hyperlinks for some symbols in *Help* buffers Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-20 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-20 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-21 13:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-21 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-21 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-21 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 19:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-21 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-22 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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