From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 30707@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:56:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e8k1x80.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o91wzo4r.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:28:36 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>
>> browse-url-browser-function is a variable defined in ‘browse-url.el’.
>> Its value is ‘browse-url-chromium’
>> The problem is browse-url-default-browser should be a blue link, but was
>> not detected as linkable.
> This sounds reasonable, but I don't think it is. :-)
> `browse-url-default-browser' is just a symbol that that variable had as
> a value. Yes, it's a symbol that refers to a function, but in general,
> the doc machinery doesn't know that that's how it's going to be used; it
> might be a total coincidence. (Especially with shorter symbols.)
Even if it is just a coincidence, would it hurt to linkify it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-14 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-05 2:17 bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-14 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-14 14:56 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-07-14 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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