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bug#8422: 24.0.50; doc of `apropos-internal'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#8422: 24.0.50; doc of `apropos-internal' |
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Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:33:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Please add to the doc string some info about what the context is
> when/where PREDICATE is invoked. Suppose, for instance, you wanted to
> use a PREDICATE such as this:
>
> (lambda (c)
> (and (commandp c)
> (where-is-internal c overriding-local-map 'non-ascii))
>
> The behavior of the PREDICATE depends on which buffer is current when it
> is invoked. Can we assume that the buffer is the same one as when
> `apropos-internal' was invoked? Likewise wrt the selected window.
>
> To find this info, users currently need to look at the C source code.
Uhm... no. As far as I can see, apropos-internal does nothing weird
like changing buffers or windows? So it would be rather odd to document
that it doesn't do <one weird thing>. Other mapping functions like
`sort' certainly doesn't. Closing.
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