From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: 57974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57974: 2022-08-30; Enhancing help facility for function doc string
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:56:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qs56iut.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1509.1663752344@localhost> (Ikumi Keita's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:25:44 +0900")
Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:
> This is a wishlist for record rather than a bug report. See
> <URL:https://lists.gnu.org/r/auctex-devel/2022-09/msg00046.html> for the
> background.
>
> When a Elisp function A has :override advice B, help facility (C-h f)
> displays doc string A, not B. It only indicates
> This function has :override advice: THE-NAME-OF-B
> modestly.
>
> This is inconvenient, especially when A is a (major or minor) mode
> function and the user typed C-h m in that mode buffer.
>
> It would be worth considering to enhance the help facility to display
> doc string of B instead when A is overrided by advice.
I'm not quite sure I follow your meaning here.
Do you have a complete recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", that displays
the problem?
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2022-09-21 10:15 ` bug#57974: 2022-08-30; Enhancing help facility for function doc string Ikumi Keita
2022-09-21 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-21 14:21 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-22 11:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-22 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-22 15:22 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-22 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-23 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-24 6:04 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-24 12:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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