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

Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> + Rahul in case we can accommodate something easily (and if appropriate) in
> markdown-ts-mode.
>
> It would be nice to know how to reproduce such a markdown input as the
> report excluded a recipe that I could see.

Thanks for adding me Stéphane.

Indeed, this is something we could help solve in `markdown-ts-mode`
given more information and a reproducible case.

-- 
Rahul Martim Juliato