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[Feature Request] [emacs] location of file for help for variables and functions should list full path |
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Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:06:46 -0400 |
When debugging load-path issues, one often wonders where a function or variable was defined. Since the help-for-help for a variable only lists the file of a function, you have to click on the file link, then find the default-directory for that file to see what file it really was loaded from.
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Re: bug#6679: locate-library does not provide a default when called interactively |
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Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:01:08 +0300 |
> From: Štěpán Němec
> <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:59:44 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
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> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:09 -0600
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
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> > Assuming that complexity is justified, it ought to be factored into a
> > read-library-name utility that both find-library and locate-library use.
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> The first part has since happened (`read-library-name'), all that is
> needed is the latter. Patch attached.
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> > `C-h a -library\'' returns apropos-library and load-library in addition to
> > find-library and locate-library, but it's not clear to me that they would
> > benefit from a default.
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> The patch also handles `load-library'. The set of arguments/completions
> expected/provided by `apropos-library' is slightly different and
> requires other validation, so `read-library-name' wouldn't really help
> there.
Thanks, pushed to the master branch.
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