From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9054: 24.0.50; show source in other window Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:11:44 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87mtoctjwv.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87k4bovfd0.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> <87eea09rwg.fsf@gnus.org> <878s05wxx8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87tuisras8.fsf@gnus.org> <87ee9wh4kh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <82a9592e-b05a-399c-419e-fcbb3e829b35@gmx.at> <87czpfymhj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <44514af3-09b8-8b6b-c436-cfc5f899142a@gmx.at> <87fsu8pdcp.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <19553bc9-5be3-619f-94dc-aeea86220ab6@gmx.at> <87czp9x3bj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <5232ff3a-c4af-cae1-808a-8eae536aea20@gmx.at> <87a6kcuzc3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9344"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 9054@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 21:14:13 2021 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 1mQwpo-0002Ea-Jy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:14:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39372 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpn-0004BW-8f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpe-00046Z-OC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpe-0006Qo-G9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpe-0003zZ-AP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9054 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 9054-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9054.163181963915322 (code B ref 9054); Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9054) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Sep 2021 19:13:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56590 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpa-0003z3-Uz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:48211) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mQwpY-0003yo-Rb for 9054@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0906AE0002; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:13:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87a6kcuzc3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:53:16 +0300") 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:214504 Archived-At: >>> The back-end should return collected data as alist, >>> and front-end should render data as the buffer text. >> >> Hmmm... I still don't get it. > > For example, ‘C-h f’ (describe-function) first calls a back-end function > that collects all information about a function and returns it in a such form: > > ((type . function) > (name . "car") > (source-file . "src/data.c") > (Info-node . "(elisp) List Elements") > (docstring . ...) > ...) And when some data collection is too time-consuming it could return it as lambda for lazy evaluation. e.g.: ((type . function) (name . "car") (references . (lambda () (collect-references "car"))) ...)