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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Emacs-Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: describe-variable with string arg
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:57:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMGEBIDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMCEBHDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

Similarly, I think it would be good if `describe-function' tried to see if a
string arg was the name of a function, before interpreting the arg as a
keyboard macro.

That is, it would be useful for (describe-function "forward-char") to do the
same thing that (describe-function 'forward-char) does. Instead, it insists
that its arg is a keyboard macro, and displays this:

   "forward-char" is a keyboard macro.

   Macro: f o r w a r d - c h a r

   Keyboard macro.

I don't think that's particularly helpful, but first trying to intern its
arg and see if that symbol has a function definition would be useful.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23 22:37 describe-variable with string arg Drew Adams
2007-03-23 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-23 22:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 23:57   ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <46045DA3.9000709@gmail.com>
2007-03-23 23:15 ` Drew Adams

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