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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 67455@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67455: Record source position, etc., in doc strings, and use this in *Help* and backtraces.
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 13:33:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1qc1n80o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZW4OJNN4W1rP-c96@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2023 17:36:36 +0000")

> I've committed the first stage of this implementation in the new git
> branch feature/positioned-lambdas.

Haven't had enough time to look closely, so just some quick early comment.

> It creates for compiled functions (but not yet for interpreted ones) doc
> strings starting with a specially formatted string containing the
> defining symbol, the source file name,

Why include the file name?  Presumably we will rely on a `(FILE . POS)`
to find that docstring so including FILE in there is rather redundant
(and in addition to that, this file name can be wrong if it's absolute
since files often get moved between compilation and use).

> the position of the defining symbol in the file, and the position of
> the lambda (should we be in one) in the file.

Why two positions?
Why not use the same position info as used in `byte-compile-warn-x`?

> To instruct a defining macro to set a defining-symbol, it is only
> necessary to add a clause like (defining-symbol 1)

Sounds good.
[ Hopefully we can eventually use that info for `font-lock` so we can
  get rid of ad-hoc rules for `defun` and friends.  It would require an
  additional piece of info (not only the position but also the kind of
  definition, to distinguish `defun` from `defvar`).  ]

> or (defining-symbol (if (consp struct) (car struct) struct))

[ Haven't seen that yet.  ]


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-04 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-26 14:30 bug#67455: Record source position, etc., in doc strings, and use this in *Help* and backtraces Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-04 17:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-04 18:33   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-12-04 21:32     ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-04 21:56       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-04 22:30         ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-04 22:59           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-15 18:23     ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-12-15 23:12       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found] ` <handler.67455.B.170100905232659.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2024-03-04 15:38   ` bug#67455: (Record source position, etc., in doc strings, and use this in *Help* and backtraces.) Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-09 21:36     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-10 16:02       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-10 17:19         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-10 19:22           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-10 21:03             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-24 11:04               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-25 18:23                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-25 21:03                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-25 22:10                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-26  9:48                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-26 13:40                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-26 16:55                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-26 19:40                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-26 20:21                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-26 20:42                                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-27  3:35                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-27 12:23                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-27 22:00                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-26 20:30                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-26 21:13                           ` Drew Adams
2024-03-27 10:04                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-27 12:22                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-27 21:43                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-28 16:25                                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-28 16:48                                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30  9:10                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-30  9:53                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-31  2:22                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-07 11:35                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-04-08  2:19                                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-08  2:56                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-04-10  8:53                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-30 11:03                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-31  2:54                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-07 10:57                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-04-08  3:16                                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-08  8:32                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-04-08 12:00                                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-02 13:38                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-03  4:52                                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-05 15:01                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-10 22:27           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-11  0:50             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-13 10:54               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-13 11:52                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-19 16:18                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-19 20:47                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-19 21:40                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-03-19 22:32                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-24 11:21                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-01 17:40     ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-01 18:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-01 18:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-01 18:17         ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-01 23:14       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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