Wilfred
New syntax to link to manpages when available
It'd be really slick if we could link to manpages.
(defun my-crazy-function ()
"Use Git configuration variables to do fancy things.
See (man)git-config."
'(blah blah blah))
In normal help-mode buffers, it would obviously just show as (man)git-config. In helpful buffers, it could link out to the manpage if those facilities are available and if that page exists.
Interesting idea! Are there projects that currently use this syntax, or are you proposing new syntax for docstrings?
As far as I know, I'm proposing new syntax. It would be particularly useful for projects like Magit which wrap a large number of documented CLI tools.
As of Emacs 28 there's an included link type for linking to man pages in docstrings! Heres the NEWS entry about it. It would really be great if helpful could format these links, and would be doubly helpful for older versions of emacs using newer packages that include these links in their docstrings.
