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bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#39215: Hyperlinks to man pages in doc strings |
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Date: |
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:03:01 -0500 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Maybe we should teach info.el to display man pages. The stand-alone
> Info reader that is part of the Texinfo package does that since time
> immemoriam.
(This seems unrelated to the, IMO totally reasonable, feature request.)
The info reader does a worse job of rendering man pages than the 'man'
program does. I hope Emacs doesn't implement a second (on top of M-x
woman) partial replacement for the man program, when one can just use
M-x man.