RE: Getting further information from describe-function

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> I would like to write a little function which acts like the
> completing-read of describe-function but the completion buffer should
> use customizable faces which indicate whether what is completed to are
> obsolote, macros, etc. One could even imagine using customizable
> format strings for the output, possibly to be able to indicate e.g.
> where the functions are defined. describe-function in its current
> state is rather "dumb", simply using completing-read over obarray on
> symbols that "are fboundp".
> 
> So to write this feature I had in mind...where do I start?

Icicles.  ;-)