From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:12:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86frzlv6fy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTeSV-AZJkZ62XRq@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:45:59 +0000")
> In a recent master branch Emacs, (not with -Q), from an info buffer, I
> did C-h v search-default-mode. The text printed in *Help* included this:
>
> Its value is
> #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_109>
> Original value was nil
> Local in buffer *info*<3>; global value is nil
>
> .. This is quite frankly entirely unhelpful; it gives no way to find out
> what the lambda is, in particular, no way to get to its source code. It
> isn't even possible to disassemble the function.
Another example:
0. emacs -Q
1. M-x list-timers
* 0.1s t show-paren-function
* 0.5s t #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_13>
I wonder how users are supposed to know what function it is?
Searching by the delay number 0.5 reveals this lambda comes from
(setq jit-lock-context-timer
(run-with-idle-timer jit-lock-context-time t
(lambda ()
(unless jit-lock--antiblink-grace-timer
(jit-lock-context-fontify)))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-29 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-24 9:45 Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-25 6:43 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29 7:12 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2023-12-29 7:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-30 17:40 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29 10:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-29 10:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-30 17:43 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-31 3:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29 20:19 ` Andrea Corallo
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