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Re: Help cross reference to source file


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Help cross reference to source file
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:41:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>     Even if help can't take me to the right place in the source file,
>     I think it should open the file - and provide the error message,
>     inviting me to search for it in the file.

> Does this give behavior you like?

> *** find-func.el      18 Apr 2006 16:51:36 -0400      1.72
> --- find-func.el      09 Jul 2006 14:48:06 -0400      
> ***************
> *** 244,249 ****
> --- 244,250 ----
>               (progn
>                 (beginning-of-line)
>                 (cons (current-buffer) (point)))
> +           (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
>             (error "Cannot find definition of `%s' in library `%s'"
>                    symbol library))))))))
  
This burps if the selected window is a minibuffer or dedicated window.
I think we should mark switch-to-buffer as "not for use from elisp" (like
insert-buffer and others).


        Stefan




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