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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:02:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmu6zn2ik.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkxku2JWC2yxCykj-as-r5dW0_YYgurXGVLYK1gsHsZog@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:22:48 +0200")

> One could perhaps create a new defvar with a list of manuals for which
> to enable this, and disable it in all other cases.

Short of finding it out automatically, that's probably what we'd need to
do, yes.

> Perhaps more elegantly, one could add links only when there is
> a corresponding symbol in the obarray.

That will suffer from false positives.
Also for non-Emacs documentation, we could also add links but to the
relevant part of the manual.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-21 20:38 Info viewer: Links to symbol documentation H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 10:53   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 11:15   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-04-25 16:04     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 17:22       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 17:34         ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 12:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-25 12:22   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-25 13:02     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-03 10:51       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-03 14:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 16:02           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-04-25 13:21     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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