From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:14:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1djixiw.fsf@gnus.org> References: <875yuvlrz3.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Arthur Miller , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 08:17:49 2021 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 1mSCce-0006Nr-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54342 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSCcc-000640-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSCZZ-0003jZ-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:47648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSCZY-00077R-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:14:37 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=tJcM+FxYGEbYKtez8j2fb0sLNb6tzJYdxd71u+XhY/Q=; b=pMqntFyRNjYO4GTpq77Pc3tqOl 9oKZpJPomQ3gLl2hMb+eUzj/6Owy/2eMUQ3VJJ4dGPH8BI41pCK6bqM0/nx5f0Lwzdseho7fnIByv HMvZpP9XHFyjVnYfnu6hj4eY1JeI9FO1oA5UQ65pmpb2Za61AmeAGaavbpxSxfZPGqTM=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=elva) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSCZU-00069M-2Z; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:14:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:09:51 -0700") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2; envelope-from=larsi@gnus.org; helo=quimby.gnus.org X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275104 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > FWIW, I personally also ask myself why/how this is useful. Is it > because some users don't know that you can get to the source code? > > That said, I don't see any reason not to have this as an optional > feature, if some users find that it works well for them. The user would have to know about the user option to turn it on... On the other hand, as we've discussed in the "profile" issue, we might have a profile that switches all stuff like this on, which makes the issue of discovery moot. I'm not against the feature per se, but I'm just puzzled that somebody would want this feature. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no