Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation

[dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)]

Hello Emacs

FYI: 5 people reacted to the idea of furthering the self-documenting
capabilities - admittedly only a tiny step - for Emacs, but, at least
the feedback was positive.  So I thought it might be a good idea to
bring this package to Melpa, ripen the code and judge the interest
before it could be integrated into GNU-ELPA.

  https://melpa.org/#/inform

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Perhaps more elegantly, one could add links only when there is a
>> corresponding symbol in the obarray.
>
> That will suffer from false positives.

At the moment the linking is only done when variable -, function - and
font names are `quoted' or there is a prefix M-x for function names and
additionally, if all these symbols are in `obarray'.  I guess the
chances of false positives are therefore minuscule.

> Also for non-Emacs documentation, we could also add links but to the
> relevant part of the manual.

I had a look for the `automake' manual. I'm not sure what you have in
mind for this kind of documentation and therefore how to implement it..

Could you please give me a concrete example?

    Dieter

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany