From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 9669@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9669: 24.0.50; `tramp-compat.el' in *Help* when it doesn't belong (?)
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:55:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9FAA3F1BBBDA459E9BAA10031D31F161@us.oracle.com> (raw)
I'm seeing this in my own setup. I don't have the time to track it down
further. Maybe you can reproduce it for emacs -Q (maybe not). Maybe
you can understand the problem from the description here (maybe not).
I do `C-h f read-char-by-name', and I see this:
read-char-by-name is an alias for `icicle-read-char-by-name' in
`tramp-compat.el'.
I expect to see that, except that the file where
`icicle-read-char-by-name' is defined is `icicles-fn.el', not
`tramp-compat.el'. No idea where the latter comes from. A user
clicking the `tramp-compat.el' link will go to that file and have no
clue about either `read-char-by-name' or `icicle-read-char-by-name'!
And if a user clicks `icicle-read-char-by-name' s?he sees only this -
still no mention of `icicles-fn.el':
icicle-read-char-by-name is a compiled Lisp function.
The defaliasing is done dynamically, and that is perhaps what throws
things off. In `icicles-mode.el', the defaliasing code is this:
(defun icicle-redefine-standard-functions ()
(when (fboundp 'icicle-completing-read)
(dolist (fn icicle-functions-to-redefine)
(when (fboundp (intern (concat "old-" (symbol-name fn))))
(defalias fn (intern (concat "icicle-" (symbol-name fn))))))))
I can understand that `C-h f' would not be able to figure out which file
the defaliasing was done in. But what the help seems to say is that
`icicle-read-char-by-name' is defined in `tramp-compat.el', and it is
not (nor is `read-char-by-name'). There is nothing in `tramp-compat.el'
about `read-char'.
I would expect that the help could figure out where
`icicle-read-char-by-name' is defined, even if it cannot figure out
where `read-char-by-name' gets defaliased to it.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2011-09-19 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt'
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 16:55 Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-04 17:00 ` bug#9669: 24.0.50; `tramp-compat.el' in *Help* when it doesn't belong (?) Drew Adams
2011-10-04 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-04 17:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-04 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-05 0:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-05 1:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-05 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-05 17:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-05 17:41 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-18 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-14 8:32 ` Glenn Morris
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