From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 66750@debbugs.gnu.org, Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#66750: Unhelpful text in C-h v for variables with a lambda form as value
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 13:53:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmDmkO1Rq6KOFc8UP570w8MEBd+Q81QaHwR=jpPCiL1+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvttqapor4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The way we do it for the arglist is hideous and a pain in the rear (I
> blame the maintainers who accepted my patch back then), so it would be
> an opportunity to "do it right" this time.
What is bad about it, and how do you propose it could be improved?
I'm asking because I've only run into minor issues with it, that have
been easy to work around.
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2023-10-25 17:09 bug#66750: Unhelpful text in C-h v for variables with a lambda form as value Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-25 20:53 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-10-27 11:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 9:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 15:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-28 15:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-28 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-28 18:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-28 18:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-28 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-28 19:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-29 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-29 11:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-29 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-29 18:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-29 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-30 9:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-01 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-01 15:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-01 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-01 20:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-01 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-02 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-02 9:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-02 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-02 11:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-02 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-02 15:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-02 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-02 17:12 ` Andrea Corallo
2023-11-02 21:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-11-02 22:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-03 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-03 19:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-03 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 15:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-26 12:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-27 17:23 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-25 12:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-02 20:53 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2023-11-02 21:20 ` bug#66750: help-split-fundoc (was: bug#66750: Unhelpful text in C-h v for variables with a lambda form as value) Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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