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bug#41836: 26.3; Could we stop `help-buffer' from ever signalling errors
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#41836: 26.3; Could we stop `help-buffer' from ever signalling errors? |
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Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:04:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> My motivation is from wondering whether it was simple to
> display all of the function and variable symbols displayed by
> `so-long-commentary' as help buttons. I found that calling
> `help-make-xrefs' does exactly that, but then trying to use any
> of the buttons causes the "Current buffer is not in Help mode"
> error.
>
> With the suggested change I get the desirable behaviour of those
> help buttons popping up a help window with the relevant help.
> It seems to work beautifully for my use-case, and would surely
> be equally useful in other similar situations.
>
> Is there any good reason to maintain that error?
Looking at the code, my impression is that `help-make-xrefs' is meant to
be used in `help-mode' buffers only, and the `error' call is just a
sanity check for that, kinda? Lifting the restriction by removing that
`error' would allow other usages. I'm not sure whether they're
all taken into account, though.
Anybody got an opinion here?
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