From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: David Ponce <da_vid@orange.fr>
Cc: 65270@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65270: 30.0.50; `describe-function' issue with some methods
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:40:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4jl1ni7e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efcde695-03d2-630b-07d9-48fe4e14f877@orange.fr> (David Ponce's message of "Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:36:25 +0200")
> It seems there is an issue with `describe-function' of a method that
> calls `cl-call-next-method'. For a such method `describe-function' says
> that the method is "Undocumented" even if a doc string is present.
I pushed a patch to `master` which seems to fix this problem.
> Also the mentioned signature is weird. See an illustration below using
> a simple recipe, running 'emacs -Q'.
I think we still have a problem here when the method is not
byte-compiled, but I think the problem is in `help-function-arglist`
which decides to use the "raw arglist" from the interpreted closure
without looking at the arg names stashed in the docstring.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-15 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-13 10:36 bug#65270: 30.0.50; `describe-function' issue with some methods David Ponce
2023-08-14 10:41 ` David Ponce
2023-08-14 22:04 ` David Ponce
2023-08-15 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-08-15 9:09 ` David Ponce
2023-09-15 12:24 ` Stefan Kangas
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