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bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:20:47 +0200 |
> Cc: 60568@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:45:15 +0100
> From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
> > Recently, we have stumbled upon a situation when showing function code
> > is not only useful, but one of the few sane ways to examine it [3].
> > Functions that are not directly written in the source but rather
> > generated programmatically cannot currently be easily examined using
> > built-in help functionality (using describe-function or other means).
> > The help buffer only links to the (point-min) in the library defining
> > the generated function - not very helpful. In contrast, helpful extracts
> > function body from symbol function slot.
>
> I'd prefer we teach the Help facilities how to go to the source code of
> that kind of functions.
Agreed.
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Daniel Martín, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/05
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/06
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Gregory Heytings, 2023/01/06
- bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions, Stefan Monnier, 2023/01/06