From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info-look Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:15:25 +0200 Message-ID: <44A1ADFD.7070701@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151446551 31217 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2006 22:15:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 28 00:15:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvLqP-0002ve-V8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:15:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvLqP-0006oO-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvLqE-0006m4-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvLqB-0006li-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvLqA-0006lZ-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.21] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FvM2M-0004z4-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2006 22:15:25 -0000 Original-Received: from N738P021.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.36.53]) [62.47.36.53] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 28 Jun 2006 00:15:25 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56234 Archived-At: > It's primary aim is to permit manual lookups directly from > > - single-quoted symbol names as found in Elisp doc-strings, and > > Could you explain what you mean by that? Consider the doc-string of the function `mark' in simple.el. It contains the single-quoted symbol name `mark-even-if-inactive'. Moving there and typing C-h S RET will get you - if I recall correctly - something like "Not documented as a symbol: `mark-even-if-inactive" `info-lookup-symbol' strips the trailing quote but does not strip the leading backquote which is inconvenient. > And what is the purpose of info-lookup-guess-custom-symbol? > Why add it? Have `custom-unlispify-tag-names' non-nil (the default value), customize `mark-even-if-inactive', move to the "Mark" in "Mark Even If Inactive", and type C-h S RET. Should get you something like "Not documented as a symbol: Mark" I don't use "unlispified" tag names, hence I normally don't care about this. However, I didn't want to write a patch without handling this special (albeit standard) case.