From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable'
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:04:45 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207170304.g6H34jg22787@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020716131726.4190.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:31:35 +0200)
If it is a bug, AFAICS the only answers are either make `defalias' to
add the arglist to the end of the docstring of aliased built-ins (messy,
I think), or klugde `describe-function' to search the arglist of the
primitive function if the alias has a docstring (ugh).
At present, only `describe-function' knows how to handle the argument
lists. For builtin functions, the info is part of the doc string; for
Lisp functions, it is not. Therefore, for alias functions as well, we
only need `describe-function' to handle the arglist.
Perhaps the best thing is simply to tell the user how to put in the
arglist info when making an alias for a builtin function. That is
definitely a simple method.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 9:42 mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' John Paul Wallington
2002-07-11 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 0:30 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 10:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-15 15:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-16 11:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 3:04 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-07-17 8:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 13:06 ` arglist in docstring (was: mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' ) Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 13:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 15:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-18 14:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-18 15:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-18 21:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 6:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 7:18 ` mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 7:55 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 8:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 8:47 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 10:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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