From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 71117@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71117: 30.0.50; output of describe-function
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 17:10:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634qa6ioq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24a8c119-5b86-46f0-bbf0-e9d9d5b77713@easy-emacs.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Wed, 22 May 2024 15:53:07 +0200)
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:53:07 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>
> often use ‘C-h f’, i.e. ‘describe-function’, in order to jump onto the
> source code.
>
> Which is done afterwards by a command calling ‘(switch-to-buffer
> (other-buffer))’ followed by TAB, RET.
>
> With recent Emacs, calling for example ‘C-h f list RET’, appears
>
> "list is a ‘primitive-function’ in ‘C source code’".
>
> Now the first active button is ‘primitive-function’, which is rather
> basic and seldom of interest. So I have to tab twice - and by habit
> often get the first, wrong one...
>
> May it be possible to switch the button, like:
>
> "list is defined in ‘C source code’, a ‘primitive-function’".
I guess nothing is ever good enough, sigh...
Adding Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-22 13:53 bug#71117: 30.0.50; output of describe-function Andreas Röhler
2024-05-22 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-22 17:46 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-05-22 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-22 22:22 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-05-23 5:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 17:44 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-28 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 19:42 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-28 22:04 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2024-05-28 22:25 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-29 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 15:17 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-29 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 16:04 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-29 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-23 6:28 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-23 11:51 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-23 17:20 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-23 20:23 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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