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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:09:51 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > So I don't understand who'd want this.
> 
> I believe this is a feature in helpful.el:
> 
> https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful/blob/master/screenshots/helpful_source.png
> 
> FWIW, I personally also ask myself why/how this is useful.  Is it
> because some users don't know that you can get to the source code?
> 
> That said, I don't see any reason not to have this as an optional
> feature, if some users find that it works well for them.

So this is only for those who'd like to see the source by default,
instead of explicitly requesting that?