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Subject: Re: Hyperlinks!
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Hello,

On 13/04/2020 12:58, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Scheme code snippets in the on-line manual now have hyperlinks for all
> the symbols documented in the manual:
>
>    https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html
>    https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html

Wow, awesome !

I had in my todo list to create an issue about that subject.

> Hyperlinks are such an amazing invention!

Yes, definitely !

> I’d like to extend it to include references to the Guile manual, so that
> one could click on, say, ‘append’, but there might be too many false
> positives at that point.  And then we would need DrRacket fanciness to
> be able to determine what an identifier really refers to…

Yes that would be very nice from a guix / guile / scheme newbie
PoV, even if not perfect.

Thanks a lot !

-- 
Vincent Legoll