GNU bug report logs - #81597
30.2; Eldoc: "Nothing to follow at point" despite text appearing like a link (underlined, hoverable, with URL tooltip)

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Package: emacs; Reported by: Ramón Cahenzli <rca@HIDDEN>; merged with #81596; dated Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:13:02 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.
Merged 81596 81597. Request was from Eli Zaretskii <eliz@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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merge 81597 81596
thanks

> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:51:10 +0200
> From: Ramón Cahenzli via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN>
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> To the list moderator: Sorry, my previous attempts to send this came 
> directly from "report-emacs-bug" and contained a lot of system 
> information which I understand is not supposed to be sent to the list, 
> despite being pre-filled by Emacs? Here's a clean version instead:

There was no need.  The information collected by report-emacs-bug is
useful even for such bug report.  It is best not to remove it.

Moreover, sending another message created a separate bug report, which
is not what you intended to happen.  I'm now merging the two bugs,
because they are actually one and the same.

Thanks.




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Hi there,

To the list moderator: Sorry, my previous attempts to send this came 
directly from "report-emacs-bug" and contained a lot of system 
information which I understand is not supposed to be sent to the list, 
despite being pre-filled by Emacs? Here's a clean version instead:


When a language server emits documentation in Markdown format, eldoc 
attempts to render this in its buffer, including making links 
clickable/followable. Most of those seem to work, but some don't. In 
such cases, the text is displayed as if it were a link (it's underlined 
and reacts to hover) but following it doesn't work:

  markdown-follow-link-at-point: Point is not at a Markdown link or URL
  markdown-follow-thing-at-point: Nothing to follow at point

Function names mentioned inside help text in elixir-ls show this 
behavior, for example. The URL in the tooltip points to documentation 
for that specific function on Hexdocs, but the link doesn't work when 
clicked.

The URL is however contained in the "help-echo" text property, in both 
working and non-working examples. It might be a bug because it feels 
misleading when the text looks and behaves like a link in the UI but 
can't be clicked/browsed.

Some other editors, e.g. Kate and Codium, seem to have decided that such 
text shouldn't be a link at all and just display it in a monospaced font 
with different background colors. But it feels like the more useful 
behavior for the user would be to let them follow the link to the 
documentation since it's already there.

Cheers,

Ramón




Acknowledgement sent to Ramón Cahenzli <rca@HIDDEN>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN. Full text available.
Report forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN:
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