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bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#30707: describe-variable misses linking linkable changed items |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:56:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
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?