From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How does `describe-function' know where the source code of the function is?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:14:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o84b9exv.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pmorf1p5.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> If I define a function with `defun', C-h f gives me a link
> to the source code of the function. I defined a macro
> defining a function (its expansion contained a `defun'), and
> C-h f'ing that function did /not/ give me that link. I tried
> saying M-: (symbol-plist 'my-function), but I haven't seen
> any property that would point to the source code. So, my
> question is: how does `describe-function' know where the
> link should point to (and if it should be rendered at all)?
Isn't the help system fed data when the defun is evaluated?
After that it's too late to find out :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-17 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-17 4:03 How does `describe-function' know where the source code of the function is? Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-17 4:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-01-17 4:27 ` Eduardo Ochs
2022-01-17 16:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-01-18 2:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-18 17:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-18 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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