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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Aaron S. Hawley'" <aaron.s.hawley@gmail.com>
Cc: 12686@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:01:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5EF25F55AEE540B6850C6A7A12D007C4@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFw1JJ6PVw_YF4MZn314s=w63Z4JFhN0tOd4qOp1KbYRMVJEFw@mail.gmail.com>

> Interesting proposals, but can we apply my patch full of doc fixes,
> close this issue and brainstorm about Help Mode in a new bug or on
> emacs-devel?

I agree.

But I would argue for including the simple change I suggested in your patch:
move the fn-or-var clause in `help-make-xrefs' to the top of the cond, so the
xref link takes you to doc for both when available.

> Sorry to be a party pooper.

Not a very good party anyway.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 20:58 bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-23  8:04 ` Juri Linkov
2012-10-23 12:32   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-23 16:15     ` Drew Adams
2012-10-23 17:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 18:29         ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 19:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 20:13             ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 20:44               ` Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-25 21:01                 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-10-25 21:11                   ` Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-25 21:13                     ` Drew Adams
2012-10-26  1:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 18:19                     ` Aaron S. Hawley
2013-01-11 23:09                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-23 15:24   ` Aaron S. Hawley

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