From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Subject: Recent symbol-file changes vs. help functions
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:08:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bmss4vo.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (raw)
A few days ago, load-history was changed to hold absolute file names
instead of library names. `symbol-file' was subsequently changed to
return absolute file names, too.
Because of this, the output of `describe-function' differs depending on
whether the symbol is autoloaded or not because we use `symbol-file' in
the first case, and loaddefs.el in the other.
E.g.:
,----[ C-h f viper-mode RET ]
| viper-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `viper'.
`----
,----[ C-h f ignore RET ]
| ignore is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `/home/romain/Work/Repos/Emacs/emacs/lisp/subr.elc'.
`----
There are probably other inconsistencies. I think we should convert the
absolute file name back into a library name in help functions.
--
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | I used to think there is no
it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | future left at all.
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2005-10-23 14:08 Romain Francoise [this message]
2005-10-24 1:00 ` Recent symbol-file changes vs. help functions Richard M. Stallman
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