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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <nrichard@ulb.ac.be>
Cc: 12149@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12149: 24.1; `C-h f' is worse and worse at telling where a function was defined
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:23:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8kcuptq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874malv2ri.fsf@ulb.ac.be> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:31:45 +0200")

Nicolas Richard <nrichard@ulb.ac.be> writes:

> Anyway, back to the topic, I tried loading a file test.el with content:
>
> (defun do-silly-things nil
>   (defun scroll-up (&optional arg)
>     "Do nothing and pretend all is fine."
>     t))
>
> (provide 'test)
>
> then run "emacs -Q -l test -f do-silly-things" and finally describe the
> function scroll-up. The result was that emacs did not tell where the
> function is defined, only that it's a Lisp function/closure. i.e. this
> matches what Lars said.

Thanks for checking, Nicolas.

This has probably been fixed after Drew's bug report.  Closing.

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-06 17:49 bug#12149: 24.1; `C-h f' is worse and worse at telling where a function was defined Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-28 16:34   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 21:31     ` Nicolas Richard
2016-04-29 20:23       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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