From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:01:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977E66359C38C0EDA33AB2096A09@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=ApvXC7Mq++RE7DQE33yqz-cakO5f-xyaXv62397u7Sg@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:43:00 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'm not arguing against the new feature here, but is the above a bug?
>
> It seems to me that `help-view-source' should respect the users
> narrowing, for example by querying to open a new indirect buffer or
> something in that case.
Is that a bug in my patch or in the original help functionality?
I am not working with files buffers if they are open. I insert file from the
disk, at least I hope that is the way how insrt-file-content works, into a
temporary buffer, and I work solely in that temporary buffer, when I am done I
copy buffer-string into the help buffer.
Otherwise if it does screw up user's narrowing, than it is a bug, at least
not-intended behaviour. I would than appreciate a tip what is the cause so I can
fix it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-20 15:01 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
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 [this message]
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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