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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-with-filter
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:18:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lkv5k5d9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FJyvy-00034g-Ec@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:18:58 -0500")

>     It seems to be a result of a feature that, I believe, Stefan
>     implemented whereby, in a docstring, RET or Mouse-2 lead to the doc of
>     anything that has a definition as a Lisp variable, face or function,
>     regardless of whether it is quoted.

> But isn't that feature also controlled by words that appear before the
> symbol name?  For instance, if it says "the variable `foo'", the link
> will use the variable definition, not the function definition.

No, it will show both the function and the variable definition (if both
exist).

It was mostly meant to be used on variable *values* (e.g. hooks), as well as
for docstrings which fail to use the `...'  convention.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-11 23:46 locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-12 23:59 ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-13  0:18   ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-13  4:39     ` locate-with-filter Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-13 11:30       ` locate-with-filter Peter Breton
2006-03-13 12:55   ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-14  2:55     ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-14  4:41       ` locate-with-filter Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-14  5:39         ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-14 16:09       ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-15  5:41         ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-15 13:33           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-15 13:39             ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-15 20:23           ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-15 22:47             ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-16 20:18               ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-17  1:38                 ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-17  2:21                 ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-18  8:44                   ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-18  8:59                     ` locate-with-filter Nick Roberts
2006-03-18 17:16                       ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  4:15                         ` locate-with-filter Nick Roberts
2006-03-19  3:50                           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  4:55                           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  5:09                             ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  5:22                               ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19 21:51                             ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-20  5:12                               ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-21  1:02                                 ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-21  1:13                                   ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-29  4:09                                   ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-29 23:02                                     ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-30  0:29                                       ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-31  3:10                                         ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-04-01  1:34                                           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-04-01  1:52                                           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  9:09                       ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-19 20:15                         ` locate-with-filter Nick Roberts
2006-03-19 20:19                           ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19 22:05                             ` locate-with-filter Nick Roberts
2006-03-20 15:05                           ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-19  1:28                     ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-19  2:29                       ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-20  6:18                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-03-14 16:09       ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman
2006-03-15  5:37         ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-15  5:48         ` locate-with-filter Luc Teirlinck
2006-03-15 20:23           ` locate-with-filter Richard Stallman

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