From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 24235@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24235: 25.1.50; `describe-bindings' request: show `??' definitions
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:18:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <701f2b99-dbfd-42f4-b8e4-ee6ab068234f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e83fr8i.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
> The calling sequence for this command is slightly convoluted, but it
> turns out that help.el calls basically
> (describe-buffer-bindings buffer nil nil)
> which is a C function (but why?) which inserts all the
>
> C-n next-line
> C-o open-line
> C-H-w ??
>
> stuff, which is then post-processed to add the xref links. So at the
> point where the xref is added, then there's no feasible way to
> determine what the ?? referred to, really, without redoing the work the C
> function had already done...
>
> I think.
>
> Anybody?
I don't have a solution suggestion. But maybe
a start would be to move this from C to Lisp?
(Just a suggestion. Dunno whether there's a
good reason why it's still in C.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-27 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-15 17:12 bug#24235: 25.1.50; `describe-bindings' request: show `??' definitions Drew Adams
2019-07-27 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-27 17:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-11-02 15:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 18:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-06 21:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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