From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83wn61w7lc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fscpifdw.fsf@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23495"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, 60568@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daniel =?UTF-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 12:21:10 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pDOJ4-0005wi-9s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pDOIS-0002bM-MS; Thu, 05 Jan 2023 06:20:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:252592 Archived-At: > Cc: 60568@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:45:15 +0100 > From: Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > Ihor Radchenko writes: > > > Recently, we have stumbled upon a situation when showing function code > > is not only useful, but one of the few sane ways to examine it [3]. > > Functions that are not directly written in the source but rather > > generated programmatically cannot currently be easily examined using > > built-in help functionality (using describe-function or other means). > > The help buffer only links to the (point-min) in the library defining > > the generated function - not very helpful. In contrast, helpful extracts > > function body from symbol function slot. > > I'd prefer we teach the Help facilities how to go to the source code of > that kind of functions. Agreed.