From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gemini Lasswell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backtrace-mode Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:41:10 -0700 Message-ID: <87602bgyyx.fsf@runbox.com> References: <871sd2mli3.fsf@runbox.com> <871sczsmwb.fsf@runbox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529646024 16493 195.159.176.226 (22 Jun 2018 05:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:40:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 07:40:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEnz-0004C6-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEq6-0000xW-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEp9-0000YN-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:41:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEp4-00079D-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:45832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEp3-00078C-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:41:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=runbox.com; s=rbselector1; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=8JF4MqJ/P7ROvnNqhulIqReadn7jihDxELSPdbBEVM8=; b=KlhlkFm5F2FosMXVYFmH0GvX5i EetbPzol94cmG1wSApT3nTTMGQfHvQArMZXn61vmmZoIj20XBNcFQgN3jFLTQdoQTZrPXkoo2eeW0 dMF7b2fV4FV6XGxm8eR9wNBNxAp74/meA+fADETa9AyMNDC6xDqpK5YohYIl+nHLtJFjtulfX8+J5 +tk1VEw0f3CbNFGzCI0OHTFX/iBYIxNl/KEjHh5+3VaxxXeMRL9cGc/UdGGqi9ol7+hpf71UciIQo TNSbw8WV97tXqqiius3lnxosZUB++L25tfwyyDJiKozEACup9YAg0dPmneMc/5cstQ2d50Se1h6UQ vcgQ5qJg==; Original-Received: from [10.9.9.211] (helo=mailfront11.runbox.com) by mailtransmit03.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWEoz-0000oB-Mz; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-22-244-161.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.22.244.161] helo=chinook) by mailfront11.runbox.com with esmtpsa (uid:179284 ) (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) id 1fWEor-0006Ul-MH; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:41:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:07:14 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 91.220.196.211 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226582 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> 3. "Show help", to bring up help for the symbol at point, currently >> implemented by backtrace-help-follow-symbol, bound to RET. > > Doesn't C-h o already do the trick? Yes it does. backtrace-help-follow-symbol isn't new, I just renamed it from debug-help-follow and moved it to backtrace.el so ERT and Edebug could use it too. It's mostly just a wrapper around describe-symbol that skips prompting to confirm the symbol. It's also very similar to help-follow-symbol.