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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:17:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rzrzpfz.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1djixiw.fsf@gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm not against the feature per se, but I'm just puzzled that somebody
> would want this feature.  :-)

Consider scenario when you are editing some-file.el and narrowed the
buffer to a defun A. Then, you need to examine source code of another
function B also defined in some-file.el.

Opening help buffer for B is easy - <F1> f <RET> with point at the B's
call. However, without source code being shown in the help buffer, if I
try to hit s, the narrowing is removed and the point is moved to a
function definition. Not convenient.

Of course, one can create indirect buffer for some-file.el, widen, and
jump to B's definition. However, I personally find help buffer with
source code more comfortable.

Best,
Ihor




  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-19 19:50 Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers Arthur Miller
2021-09-20  5:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-20  6:09   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20  6:14     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-20  7:17       ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-09-20  7:43         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20  8:29           ` martin rudalics
2021-09-20  9:04           ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-20 23:45             ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21  4:16             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21  6:59               ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-21  7:41                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21  8:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21  9:17                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-21 16:49                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01  7:05                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01  7:09                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01  7:21                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01  7:21                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01  9:04                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01 12:20                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-01  7:24                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01  9:08                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-01 10:24                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 14:14                                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-21  8:34               ` martin rudalics
2021-09-20 15:01           ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21  7:41             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 15:27         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20  6:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-20 15:27       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 14:55     ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21  4:18       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 10:26         ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 15:23   ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20  5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-20  6:37   ` Gregor Zattler
2021-09-20  7:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-20 15:21       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20  8:21     ` martin rudalics
2021-09-20 18:13       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21  8:34         ` martin rudalics
2021-09-21 10:24           ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 16:52             ` martin rudalics
2021-09-21 18:56               ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-21 17:30           ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-21 19:13             ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-22  7:49               ` martin rudalics
2021-09-22 16:04                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-22 17:52                   ` martin rudalics
2021-09-23  8:15                     ` martin rudalics
2021-09-23 15:52                       ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-26  9:10                         ` martin rudalics
2021-09-22 22:38                 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-23  8:22                   ` martin rudalics
2021-09-20 12:19     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-20 15:13       ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-20 15:11   ` Arthur Miller

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