From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displays defconst string in help buffer
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:50:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BRsSA6mHWedrYlt7TlNdP7W_Pt02ntlpZMV7PIEqC-cNNOj-eAfVVBF7C_Fc--2nKDUWoLNT1WrgFbeWk3Q3MIASnrJisn1nRFqQ9SY3Us=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn81ff4r.fsf@dataswamp.org>
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, November 11th, 2022 at 7:46 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> Heime wrote:
>
> > I have a defconst declaration called "attend". Would like to
> > have a function that displays the "attend" string in the
> > help buffer as is done by "describe-function". What can
> > I do?
>
>
> Use the source, Luke!
>
> C-h f describe-function RET
>
> If you see a button there to the source, hit it.
>
> It's in help-fns.el lines 251-284.
>
> If you don't see a link, see if you can get that. Do you build
> Emacs from source? If not ... see if you can get that!
> Here are a bunch of useful commands:
>
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/.zsh/install-emacs
Yes, I build from source.
I have done the following solution
(with-help-window (help-buffer)
(insert attend-message))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-12 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 19:29 Displays defconst string in help buffer Heime
2022-11-11 19:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-12 7:50 ` Heime [this message]
2022-11-13 17:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-14 13:46 ` Heime
2022-11-15 1:04 ` Emanuel Berg
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