From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation by function beyond =?utf-8?Q?elisp=C2=A0?= Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:29:56 +0200 Message-ID: <83pm9i0wp7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4Rj4EZNhsddTjHzoYuycFzMpjNTJjjwmdDcAgyuMcSFsBePmPBTtlxUENKjf4W1xOVcdDeZIFfHJxD9uRInDURGMdmiIPJ_BB1BvgQ8ylJI=@protonmail.com> <83v8ja15ap.fsf@gnu.org> 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="27339"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: goncholden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 09 16:31:06 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1paIEU-0006w4-QZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:31:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1paIDk-0004kc-DU; Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1paIDh-0004h3-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1paIDh-0007zW-7W; Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:30:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=yvphCA6eDJWkJrZFXuWCusJXZ4ahVl2ojJs8lsWR3Rs=; b=Q/AsHj2M0HVtVlqa5S2I FOzdiT2hqluUegNEutruoMSE1niBbAlFklmDntI6f7adtyDVeNTyuOD4lZhBjjW+Feg20l3zK7J6q byVi+ZQZQ/dEFq3LK+idAjvDAq9qUF8ygLZPRh0WXXfX79RuD3bt7cUal+CyPaomktRBd7LVc+Tb6 mkbzCPOs1CREUdxbS6XiqrVX2HKxKvDzwY0lOGviRL4ZWA4GYc37UHGGAfZGqeYw59SkZJnKhP9Fi t7FFO3X/8GS9/ofr8m32jogkBeKnKU4hnFUGhKS+Tl0y19r0gG/Fh1hc8bcfAB1y9GhOzsUWN73tx hrE1URFwnqE0rQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1paIDU-0001tG-DL; Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:30:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from goncholden on Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:304205 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000 > From: goncholden > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > For elisp files, emacs has the capability of showing documentation by function. A valuable tool > > > would be to extend such functionality to others like bash and awk. Perhaps one can come up > > > with something that could work beautifully. Have there been an ideas for such capability extension > > > before? > > > > > > Did you try "C-h S"? > > That does not work for user-defined awk functions, complaining that a function name > is not a symbol. That's true. But you never said anything about user-defined in your OP...