From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: gregory@heytings.org, mardani29@yahoo.es,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 60568@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:14:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83358ms7gl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfgmjscq.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sat, 07 Jan 2023 15:07:33 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> 60568@debbugs.gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 15:07:33 +0000
>
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>
> >>
> >> But is it of interest for _users_? I'd rather see it in Elisp manual.
> >>
> >
> > It should be documented in the Elisp manual, indeed. What I said was a
> > bit unclear: I meant that a reminder should be displayed in the *Help*
> > buffer. With this, Elisp programmers who are not aware of that subtlety
> > would become aware of it.
>
> Then, may "13.4 Defining Functions" be a good place to link to this
> subtlety?
>
> The documentation for `defalias' is not really very clear, even now,
> when I am aware about the issue herein:
>
> The proper place to use ‘defalias’ is where a specific function or
> macro name is being defined—especially where that name appears
> explicitly in the source file being loaded. This is because
> ‘defalias’ records which file defined the function, just like
> ‘defun’ (*note Unloading::).
>
> By contrast, in programs that manipulate function definitions for
> other purposes, it is better to use ‘fset’, which does not keep
> such records. *Note Function Cells::.
FWIW, I don't see anything unclear here. Moreover, what does defalias
have to do with the issue of links to code of generated functions?
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-05 7:56 bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 8:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 17:04 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-05 17:03 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-05 9:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 9:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 10:45 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-05 10:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-05 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 12:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 15:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-05 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 20:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-06 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-06 9:11 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-06 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-06 22:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-07 0:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-07 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 9:42 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-07 13:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 14:04 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-07 15:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-01-07 15:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 13:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 17:00 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-06 8:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-06 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-07 11:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-07 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-01-12 10:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
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