global self-documentation?

global self-documentation?

[Joe Corneli]

What are the best methods for browsing all functions or commands that
are part of GNU emacs (even if not loaded)?

Re: global self-documentation?

[Friedrich Dominicus]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

> What are the best methods for browsing all functions or commands that
> are part of GNU emacs (even if not loaded)?
Use etags on all you emacs lisp files. Maybe find-function-at-point
could be used...

Regards
Friedrich

Re: global self-documentation?

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Dec 19 2003, Joe Corneli wrote:

> What are the best methods for browsing all functions or commands that
> are part of GNU emacs (even if not loaded)?

- Browse the command index of the Emacs manual (info "(emacs)Command
  Index").

- Browse the ELisp manual (info "(elisp)Top") and the index therein 
  (info "(elisp)Index").

- `C-h a foo RET' (Menu / Help / Describe / Apropos Commands) shows
  all commands containing "foo" including a short description.

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Re: global self-documentation?

[Jesper Harder]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 19 2003, Joe Corneli wrote:
>
>> What are the best methods for browsing all functions or commands
>> that are part of GNU emacs (even if not loaded)?
>
> - `C-h a foo RET' (Menu / Help / Describe / Apropos Commands) shows
>   all commands containing "foo" including a short description.

But this won't get you all symbols in libraries which haven't been
loaded.

`M-x cus-test-load-libs' from emacs/admin/cus-test.el should load most
functions and variables, but symbols defined in files with no
autoloads will still be missing.