From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:01:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZY6Y_3mO-Ny5xn0l@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86frzlv6fy.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Hello, Juri.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 09:12:49 +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > In a recent master branch Emacs, (not with -Q), from an info buffer, I
> > did C-h v search-default-mode. The text printed in *Help* included this:
> > Its value is
> > #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_109>
> > Original value was nil
> > Local in buffer *info*<3>; global value is nil
> > .. This is quite frankly entirely unhelpful; it gives no way to find out
> > what the lambda is, in particular, no way to get to its source code. It
> > isn't even possible to disassemble the function.
> Another example:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x list-timers
> * 0.1s t show-paren-function
> * 0.5s t #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_13>
> I wonder how users are supposed to know what function it is?
> Searching by the delay number 0.5 reveals this lambda comes from
> (setq jit-lock-context-timer
> (run-with-idle-timer jit-lock-context-time t
> (lambda ()
> (unless jit-lock--antiblink-grace-timer
> (jit-lock-context-fontify)))))
The new feature I've been working on for a couple of months should fix
this problem, too. I'm making steady progress, currently being stuck on
cl-generic.el, due to its appalling lack of documentation.
Incidentally, why do we need the long string of hex digits in the subr
names F616e....6461_anonymous_lambda_109? These are simply the ASCII
codes for "anonymous_lambda", and would appear to be utterly
superfluous. They serve only to make it more difficult to use the
function name, or to talk about it, and they make the list-timers output
much wider than it need be.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-29 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-24 9:45 Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode Alan Mackenzie
2023-10-25 6:43 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29 7:12 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29 7:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-30 17:40 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-29 10:01 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2023-12-29 10:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-30 17:43 ` Juri Linkov
2023-12-31 3:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-12-29 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-29 20:19 ` Andrea Corallo
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