From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:09:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlidaiq8w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354820376.62901.YahooMailClassic@web141102.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Kelly Dean's message of "Thu, 6 Dec 2012 10:59:36 -0800 (PST)")
> A new user will often not remember whether a symbol he has in mind
> is a function or variable, so he doesn't know whether to use C-h f or C-h
> v to get help for it.
A command that gives you help on "any symbol" would make a lot of
sense, yes.
Actually, there is already a function for that, called
`help-xref-interned', so all we need is to give it a nicer name
(e.g. describe-symbol), and an `interactive' spec which
provides completion.
> BTW am I supposed to send little things like this to emacs-devel, or to
> bug-gnu-emacs, or just post on the wiki?
Either is fine.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 18:59 [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier Kelly Dean
2012-12-07 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-07 18:12 ` Kelly Dean
2012-12-07 18:30 ` chad
2012-12-07 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-07 19:32 ` [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a littleeasier Drew Adams
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2012-12-08 19:19 [PATCH] Unify fn and var help to make learning elisp a little easier Kelly Dean
2012-12-22 21:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-22 21:43 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-23 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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