From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:20:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8kd903l.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28819A29BB374779AEEA60B7FF63A25B@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:49:15 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> In Emacs prior to Emacs 23, `C-h f' did not point to the wrong files
> as having defined these function. At least it did not lie and steer
> you wrong.
>
> Emacs 23.4 did not point to the wrong file for `y-or-n-p', but it did
> point to the wrong file for `top-level'.
>
> Emacs 24.1 gets them both wrong. It simply gives the original location
> (from emacs -Q) for each of them: `C source code' for `top-level' and
> `subr.el' for `y-or-n-p'. This is not good. Better to say "no idea"
> than to mislead the user this way.
(progn
(defun yes-or-no-p (prompt) (y-or-n-p prompt))
(describe-function 'yes-or-no-p))
=>
yes-or-no-p is a Lisp function.
(yes-or-no-p PROMPT)
Not documented.
So I seem to be unable to reproduce this bug. Are you still seeing it?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 16:20 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 [this message]
2016-04-28 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 21:31 ` Nicolas Richard
2016-04-29 20:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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