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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 54628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54628: 29.0.50; C-h f incorrectly replaces `function' arguments with #' for generic functions
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 19:57:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AB525A-203D-4882-845A-4D7EA6671A38@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfqy73o7.fsf@gnus.org>



> Am 31.03.2022 um 13:38 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> 
> Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> C-h f seq-do RET
>> 
>> The resulting help screen contains:
>> 
>> *****
>> Implementations:
>> 
>> #'sequence in ‘seq.el’.
>> 
>> Undocumented
>> *****
>> 
>> Here, the help screen has incorrect translated the argument list
>> (function sequence) into #'sequence.
> 
> Yup. I've also previously found that section in the *Help* buffer to be
> somewhat obscure, so I've made it include the function name, which
> should help clarify things slightly (and fixes the problem here as a
> side effect,

Thanks.

> although I guess we could also just bind print-quoted to
> nil).
> 

Does the fix still work if a FUNCTION argument is specialized?

(cl-defmethod foobar ((function my-function-type)))






  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-03 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 20:09 bug#54628: 29.0.50; C-h f incorrectly replaces `function' arguments with #' for generic functions Philipp
2022-03-31 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-03 17:57   ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2022-04-04 10:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-16 18:43       ` Philipp Stephani

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