From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, mardani29@yahoo.es,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
60568@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:42:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6538f58eb5cc153a2250@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k01yu93p.fsf@gnu.org>
>> If you look at the code of `find-func.el` you'll see that we already
>> rely on heuristics, so it seems like a natural complement. But I agree
>> that `definition-name` is usually preferable since it's more reliable.
>> Still most people don't know `definition-name`, so it can still be
>> helpful.
>
> Maybe people will know better if definition-name would be documented.
>
I think the place where it should be documented is the suggested *Help*
screen, with a sentence like "To ensure an accurate identification of the
place where `frobnicate' was defined, the definition-name slot of the
`frobnicate' symbol should be set ."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-07 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-05 7:56 bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 8:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 17:04 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-05 17:03 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-05 9:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 9:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 10:45 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-05 10:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 12:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 15:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 20:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-06 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-06 9:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-06 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-06 22:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-07 0:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-07 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 9:42 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2023-01-07 13:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 14:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-07 15:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 15:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 13:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 17:00 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-06 8:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-06 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-07 11:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-12 10:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
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