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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.





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