From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:23:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <875yuvlrz3.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11531"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 17:40:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSLPZ-0002k7-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47786 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSLPY-0001H9-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275146 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Arthur Miller writes: > >> Here is my second proposal to bring built-in help on par with external >> offerings. > > I haven't tried the patch, but this is for showing the source code of > the function/variable in question in the *Help* buffer? I'm not quite > sure I understand the utility of that -- if you want to look at the > source, you can just hit the `s' key. And then you get all the proper > language-related Emacs stuff in that buffer -- looking at sources is > usually nicer in the correct major mode than in other buffers. > > So I don't understand who'd want this. Sorry Lars, I was reading mails from top-to bottom, so I see this mail after I have already answered to Stefan K. (and you indirectly) and Eli. Is it ok if you take a peek in those two mails, since I have elaborated quite in those two? It feels a bit phony now to repeat both of those answers again :).