Re: Does variable 'org-goto-interface' exist?

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 13/12/2022 15:54, Alain.Cochard wrote:
> At the end of section 2.3 (Motion) of the manual:
> 
>       See also the variable ‘org-goto-interface’.
> 
> But this variable does not seem to exist.

Alain, could you, please, clarify, what you was trying to do when you 
came to conclusion that `org-goto-interface' did not exist?

Interactive C-h v (`describe-variable') autoloads org-goto if TAB is 
pressed when "org-goto-" is typed into the prompt, so 
`org-goto-interface' becomes available for completion. However e.g. 
"org-go" is not enough for completion. A kind of pitfall is that 
non-interactive call
     M-: (describe-variable "org-goto-interface") RET
does not autoloads org-goto as well.

M-x customize-variable RET is not so clever (at least in Emacs-26) and 
it does not try autoloads.

If org-goto has not loaded yet and cursor is over `org-goto-interface' 
mention in the Info node "(org) Motion" then C-h v (`describe-variable') 
does not prefill the prompt. It is easier to jump to the help for this 
variable when org-goto is loaded.

My point is that maybe it is better to adjust Emacs behavior, not Org 
manual.

P.S. Sometimes I do not mind to have hyperlinks from HTML manuals to 
docstrings exported to HTML as well, but it is another story.