From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Philippe Vaucher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 16:06:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="115002"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , =?UTF-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= , Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 04 16:07:28 2020 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 1jgqWm-000TmK-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:07:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51504 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jgqWl-0006d4-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36460) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jgqWB-0005Og-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lj1-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::233]:47083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jgqWA-0004Q4-CF; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lj1-x233.google.com with SMTP id z9so7422588ljh.13; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 07:06:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=hS7G786whRadnjwG8rdodpLQpdqxj9RfgrllUpJnBDA=; b=l0od5PpZAHEiHWR2hUIk5lH9LCYiUGvlumwBT0Z40F90rNpWckJvCnddc6lGWRk4tJ qEHJXnUBtrj2vtOb8GgjAb07RD2vIfFxCkCs1KWYsStmggwWSLduLm1IHob9EpD9jnc7 /gC0829JeHArqrqDykOLrqFD3ZyZ9Em2bCZAW4Bu6keBo/z89nbpWlbWOXI4yvi+TFC5 QH+1g60nsdIbUT8Pa4DgrtFcEeZBvX8Uhzq2wqRiOu+Zg3FdwSceR2Ax0WOOxkvNcKSP DfpLM/WpmhxS8VC5x3c5MsYq5506YTSgFOm2MMNpFP0YMPz0KfPqHpKLt77A5iguAQEq /irQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=hS7G786whRadnjwG8rdodpLQpdqxj9RfgrllUpJnBDA=; b=iwCSak85nXipE5bRC9NR7UQ9PdBHTq+IVFklyb93LQSY3VcC0KxsQon/mARIgkPGhD EDgizgt4KuFyNDF4w7BvKrPsZbZ/L6dpoYmk6VCTNdmMgnxh0okbWsrrDjvgp0X9TJre wYRjRS4k6C3D19Oo6ukpKxnKh6+6uIHeNRaphNObAAONQ3jE2HzJs/BAkwFXF6d6qLCs LXmVvcUViUu3Arz2teG8ho/ovmsCmJf6lQca2zol+RfU3niZ8DyzfPb7yhgCwoqgZVdb avB9VSGdWng8FKEh/3m9QGRP1MfoNEy/NWEIjKP3RG5yKQiu3H4c0PPxLeUoLzfQcnPQ 7ARw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532V5E5vHImCQAm4USfMFw3TpK4JktvtGpcYUlNrNzf4Z3uK7crT JHQqc8wnyQA2kw1iDvmY4KjaAKE/bONQTBEbkZ8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJx+diYeX9LrIUYbQ5UQR5/GCg8v0e3cPf6zD39CD90IjmWp86mLyysQNwcQlTBaFBfrmzhs6gvb9NRqKfz67pk= X-Received: by 2002:a05:651c:3cc:: with SMTP id f12mr2275470ljp.244.1591279607998; Thu, 04 Jun 2020 07:06:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::233; envelope-from=philippe.vaucher@gmail.com; helo=mail-lj1-x233.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 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, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN 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:251854 Archived-At: > > - In `prefixed-manual-overview`, I'd like to display the full > > signature of functions. For example display "(substring-no-properties > > STRING &optional FROM TO)" instead of "substring-no-properties". If > > you know a simple way I'm interested. I tried to use something like > > `(get 'substring-no-properties 'function-documentation)` or play with > > `documentation-property` but couldn't find easily and gave up. > > I think you're looking for `help-function-arglist`, but of course that > only works for those functions already loaded into Emacs. Thanks. I was beginning to think about having to use `describe-function`, extract the signature from it, then close the buffer :-) I'll incorporate your idea soon and try to make it look pretty, maybe by generating org-mode blocks instead. Philippe