From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displays defconst string in help buffer
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:46:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wn81ff4r.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
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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
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-11 19:46 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 [this message]
2022-11-12 7:50 ` Heime
2022-11-13 17:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-14 13:46 ` Heime
2022-11-15 1:04 ` Emanuel Berg
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