bug#81596: 30.2; Eldoc: "Nothing to follow at point" despite text appearing like a link (underlined, hoverable, with URL tooltip)

Ramón Cahenzli via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" [11/Aug  9:01am +02] wrote:
> 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.
>
> In both working and non-working cases, the URL is in the "help-echo"
> text property. 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.

Thanks, adding João.

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Sean Whitton