From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: IELM (was: Re: describe-mode "some-mode"?) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:27:41 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhqflwb6.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> References: <87bnrc1lkz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87tx54mjmm.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408764625 19710 80.91.229.3 (23 Aug 2014 03:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 03:30:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 23 05:30:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XL21x-000812-C9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XL21w-0006rU-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:30:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vmfgyefhv7fBEzz2UMpZgmShNEE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207086 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99363 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > It is OK, but the OP is right, and that code should > be made official, if there isn't anything else to > this extent. > > Isn't there some REPL mode where, like in Clojure, > you can do for example (source n) and (doc name)? Found it (sort of). It is `M-x ielm' and then (documentation FUNCTION). It works only for functions. But faces and variables also have documentation... There should be a generic such command! I didn't find a (source n) equivalent. Also, the IELM and/or `documentation' doesn't seem to wrap lines or respect the \n in the docstrings. Makes it a lot less practical. -- underground experts united