From: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>, 8592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8592: 24.0.50; improve describe-function/variable
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 22:48:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r58gltfy.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tydg3pga.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:15:33 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> Both functions provide lots of useful information. Unfortunatly, they do
>> too much at once. They collect the information AND display it. I'd find
>> it useul to have access to the help text in a lisp program. So I suggest
>> splitting the functions up and have one function return the help text,
>> another display it. Even more useful would be a function returning a
>> list with source file and position, keybindings, etc for functions and
>> original value for variables.
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> This is what I intended to do:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/125872/focus=126713
> I'll continue very soon.
That looks exactly like what I need. Looking forward to it!
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Florian Beck
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 21:49 bug#8592: 24.0.50; improve describe-function/variable Florian Beck
2011-04-30 12:15 ` Juri Linkov
2011-05-02 20:48 ` Florian Beck [this message]
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