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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help cross reference to source file
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:04:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FzeZq-0001yE-R5@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBEEPJDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    Even if help can't take me to the right place in the source file, I think it
    should open the file - and provide the error message, inviting me to search
    for it in the file.

Does this give behavior you like?

*** find-func.el	18 Apr 2006 16:51:36 -0400	1.72
--- find-func.el	09 Jul 2006 14:48:06 -0400	
***************
*** 244,249 ****
--- 244,250 ----
  		(progn
  		  (beginning-of-line)
  		  (cons (current-buffer) (point)))
+ 	      (switch-to-buffer (current-buffer))
  	      (error "Cannot find definition of `%s' in library `%s'"
  		     symbol library))))))))

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-09 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-09  1:35 Help cross reference to source file Drew Adams
2006-07-09 19:04 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-07-09 19:55   ` Drew Adams
2006-07-10 16:41   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-10 17:48     ` Drew Adams
2006-07-11  4:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-11 18:16         ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11  5:51       ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 18:14       ` Drew Adams
2006-07-12 15:36         ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11  5:51     ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-11 12:14       ` Stefan Monnier

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