From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36670: 27.0.50; Wishlist: describe-face should use the new help-buffer infrastructure Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:41:51 +0300 Message-ID: <831rwarw0g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0ibcm0z.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87ef0a60uu.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="68623"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36670@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 21 08:42:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5w-000Him-F1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39828 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5u-0000y9-VP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5o-0000uZ-8C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5n-0004MH-8z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5m-0004M6-Jm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5m-0003Ds-GF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36670 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 36670-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36670.156904811112371 (code B ref 36670); Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36670) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Sep 2019 06:41:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58974 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5b-0003DT-HU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48400) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5Z-0003DG-I3 for 36670@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5U-0004GU-BL; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2020 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iBZ5T-0001HS-Ro; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 02:41:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ef0a60uu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:48:09 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166836 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:48:09 +0200 > > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > > > M-x describe-variable (and -function) uses a new infrastructure based on > > help-fns-describe-{variable,function}-functions that registers a bunch > > of little bits to be output, which gives more flexibility. > > > > describe-face should use the same thing, and be moved to help-fns.el. > > I have now done this on the trunk, as previously requested by Stefan M. What does this mean in practice? I see nothing about this in NEWS or in the manuals, which makes me wonder how is this "more flexible". I guess there were some discussions, but neither the log message nor the bug discussion mentions any other sources of information. Could you please point to those discussions, or fill the void by explaining what additional flexibility do we gain? This is for future forensics, if for nothing else. Thanks.