Re: Documentation by function beyond elisp

[goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>]

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 3:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000
> > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 12:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
> > 
> > > > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:33:02 +0000
> > > > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > > > 
> > > > For elisp files, emacs has the capability of showing documentation by function. A valuable tool
> > > > would be to extend such functionality to others like bash and awk. Perhaps one can come up
> > > > with something that could work beautifully. Have there been an ideas for such capability extension
> > > > before?
> > > 
> > > Did you try "C-h S"?
> > 
> > That does not work for user-defined awk functions, complaining that a function name
> > is not a symbol.
> 
> 
> You could teach etags about Awk programs and shell scripts. Or maybe
> some variant of the tags program out there already supports those, in
> which case Emacs should be able to give you what you want for free,
> after you run that tags program on your Awk/Bash source files.

etags are all new for me.