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-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--lisp/help-mode.el10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 5f8b71b739d..e6c9d8d37a3 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2004-04-05 Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
+ * help-mode.el (help-make-xrefs): Recognize aliased variable with
+ inherited docstring.
+
* play/gamegrid.el (gamegrid-add-score-insecure): Use sort-fields.
2004-04-04 Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>
diff --git a/lisp/help-mode.el b/lisp/help-mode.el
index 032509b9614..a2a121a89e9 100644
--- a/lisp/help-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/help-mode.el
@@ -374,8 +374,14 @@ that."
(help-xref-button 8 'help-symbol sym))
((and
(boundp sym)
- (documentation-property sym
- 'variable-documentation))
+ (or
+ (documentation-property
+ sym 'variable-documentation)
+ (condition-case nil
+ (documentation-property
+ (indirect-variable sym)
+ 'variable-documentation)
+ (cyclic-variable-indirection nil))))
(help-xref-button 8 'help-variable sym))
((fboundp sym)
(help-xref-button 8 'help-function sym)))))))