From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The source linke in the help buffer Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:05:08 +0200 Message-ID: <48DA6534.6000507@gmail.com> References: <48DA138D.9050300@gmail.com> <48DA3004.4030505@gmx.at> <48DA3E9C.5040104@gmx.at> <48DA464F.8010801@gmx.at> <48DA4AC0.3060907@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222272667 32649 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 16:11:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 18:12:05 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiWxb-0000rz-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiWwZ-0008K0-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiWrd-0005yG-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiWrb-0005xE-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54438 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiWrb-0005xB-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:35966) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiWrb-00023S-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:63301 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KiWrY-000397-5i; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:05:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48DA4AC0.3060907@gmx.at> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080923-0, 2008-09-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KiWrY-000397-5i. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KiWrY-000397-5i 87e9e3cd4762feb2bd401d90f783dd18 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:104107 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: >> It doesn't of course, sorry for the bad mixing of things here. >> (However before your changes the link in the help buffer could lead >> either to the installed tree or the checked out tree.) > > But your function doesn't check these links. So what can I do to help > you? The function you're using seems to accomplish all you need. Sorry for beeing unclear. I was (a bit too implicity) saying that instead of the variables you suggested to make the help buffer link go to either the install or the source tree it would suffice with a function like the one I provided. I think it would be good if this function shared room with find-function and its relatives inside Emacs.