From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16792: 24.3.50; wish: following a variable name should show the value from initial buffer Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:45:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8761ocbwxj.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392742050 27115 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2014 16:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16792@debbugs.gnu.org To: Nicolas Richard Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 18 17:47:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnpY-0000wO-Qq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:47:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnpY-0000z5-69 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnp9-0000Qj-PD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnp1-0004qO-O2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnp1-0004qK-EW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnp0-00054D-Fj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:47:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:47:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16792 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16792-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16792.139274196819347 (code B ref 16792); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:47:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16792) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2014 16:46:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58649 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFno7-00051y-72 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:48175) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WFno5-00051r-JR for 16792@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A6E84D33; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:46:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE851E5913; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:45:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 05445B40FE; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:45:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8761ocbwxj.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:03:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85829 Archived-At: So you're saying that describe-function should remember in which buffer it was invoked, in case we use describe-variable from the resulting *Help* buffer. It's not a terribly bad idea, but to the extent that functions can't be buffer-local, it'd be an ad-hoc hack. It wouldn't be the first ad-hoc hack by the long shot, but I'm not sure I'd like to add this one. Stefan