From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: get nargs for a function Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 04:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9b8e081f-1083-4ed5-9786-18c568aa0419@googlegroups.com> References: <9eb51198-614a-49f7-8085-2a068dd28852@googlegroups.com> <3b735611-f4c0-419d-9938-ab5dc45c0405@googlegroups.com> <49c169db-e136-4ab6-ae93-2f7d08218cc1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441107047 10342 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 11:30:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:30:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 13:30:47 2015 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 1ZWjm1-0001U3-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWjlw-0004zi-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:30:40 -0400 X-Received: by 10.107.32.212 with SMTP id g203mr6824643iog.25.1441107002627; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:30:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.143.4 with SMTP id sa4mr32102igb.10.1441107002614; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!uu8no1307807igb.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni11713igi.0!nntp.google.com!uu8no1307794igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.244.128.25; posting-account=kRukCAoAAAANs-vsVh9dFwo5kp5pwnPz Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.244.128.25 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:30:02 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214669 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:106953 Archived-At: On Monday, 31 August 2015 01:17:46 UTC+1, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> To get the description of the arglist, you're better off using > >> `help-function-arglist'. > > I don't believe that works here as the input is typically anonymous. > > If it doesn't work, please report it as a bug. It does work, I just misunderstood the function documentation (I thought it took the name of a function, not the function itself). This is pretty much exactly what I wanted. Thanks!