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* bug#53178: ert should use existing explainers for aliases
@ 2022-01-11  5:17 Stefan Kangas
  2022-01-13  8:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2022-01-11  5:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 53178

Severity: minor

There exists an ert explainer for `string-equal', but it is not used if
`string=' (an alias for `string-equal') is used in the test.

This should be fixed such that an existing explainer is always used for
an alias.





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* bug#53178: ert should use existing explainers for aliases
  2022-01-11  5:17 bug#53178: ert should use existing explainers for aliases Stefan Kangas
@ 2022-01-13  8:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-01-13  8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: 53178

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> There exists an ert explainer for `string-equal', but it is not used if
> `string=' (an alias for `string-equal') is used in the test.
>
> This should be fixed such that an existing explainer is always used for
> an alias.

I started implementing this, but then I ran into the problem of possible
defalias loops.  I thought we had a function somewhere that would just
return the defalias chain, but I can't find it anywhere.  And indeed:

(defalias 'a 'b)
(defalias 'b 'a)

And then `C-h f a RET' will infloop because

(defun help-fns--analyze-function (function)
[...]
                    ((and aliased (not (subrp def)))
                     (let ((f real-function))
                       (while (and (fboundp f)
                                   (symbolp (symbol-function f)))
                         (setq f (symbol-function f)))
                       f))

So I've now added a new function for this, fixed the infloop in
help-fns, and fixed the explainer lookup in ert.

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