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bug#23647: 25.1.50; In man pages, links on hyphenated words don't work
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#23647: 25.1.50; In man pages, links on hyphenated words don't work |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Jun 2016 13:17:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 18:35:46 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> So how should we proceed from here? We could add U+2010 to the regexp
>> in my patch, which would then be this: "[-‐]" (hyphen-minus (ASCII 45),
>> hyphen (U+2010), soft hyphen (U+00AD) -- it seems harmless to retain the
>> latter, given that man.el already uses it elsewhere), but if these are
>> all included in the Unicode Pd character class along with other possible
>> hyphen characters, maybe a different approach is required. I know
>> nothing about the Pd character class and how to detect it with Elisp; I
>> also don't know if doing that would lead to further changes in man.el,
>> making this a larger undertaking. What do you suggest?
>
> I'd go with just those 3, I think the others will not be produced by
> Groff.
Done in commit 75de364 on master, and closing the bug.
Steve Berman