From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: About :link Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:59:28 -0800 Message-ID: <9C15F0CD1D314A6B988AB5246B340B4E@us.oracle.com> References: <20121230224959.a85941dffa292851efc1f313@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356883191 7690 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2012 15:59:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:59:51 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xue Fuqiao'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 30 17:00:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TpLIy-0006Bu-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:00:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpLIj-000079-Eb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:59:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpLId-000071-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpLIb-0007ej-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:44468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TpLIb-0007dn-OY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:59:41 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBUFxcId020453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:59:39 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBUFxcq4002632 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:59:38 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt119.oracle.com (abhmt119.oracle.com [141.146.116.71]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qBUFxcVW019343; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:59:38 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:59:37 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20121230224959.a85941dffa292851efc1f313@gmail.com> Thread-Index: Ac3mnPhg/DW4KQ1nSU+54fWZ8MkwdgACRUxw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88351 Archived-At: > `:link LINK-DATA' > Include an external link after the documentation string for this > item. This is a sentence containing an active field which > references some other documentation. > > What does the `active field' mean? I've gone through the > manual, but I don't find what it means. It means that you can click on the text as a link, and the link will be followed (outside of Emacs - it's an external link). But unless you find "active field" explained somewhere, that's a doc bug, IMHO. `M-x report-emacs-bug'.