From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:16:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbllzxc3k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGK7Mr4TfzcrrK0GZZVgujvcrh4vqeHkS4Eo+_1cB6r7=eMzSw@mail.gmail.com> (Philippe Vaucher's message of "Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:39:22 +0200")
> - I'm not sure I like "prefixed-manual", given this is more about
> "manual-helpers". Feel free to suggest a better name.
`fixed-manual` ? ;-)
> - In `prefixed-manual-overview`, I'd like to display the full
> signature of functions. For example display "(substring-no-properties
> STRING &optional FROM TO)" instead of "substring-no-properties". If
> you know a simple way I'm interested. I tried to use something like
> `(get 'substring-no-properties 'function-documentation)` or play with
> `documentation-property` but couldn't find easily and gave up.
I think you're looking for `help-function-arglist`, but of course that
only works for those functions already loaded into Emacs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-04 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-04 9:39 Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-04 12:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-06-04 14:06 ` Philippe Vaucher
[not found] ` <E1jh2ly-000090-Hp@fencepost.gnu.org>
2020-06-05 7:55 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-06 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2020-06-07 12:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-08 3:35 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <CAGK7Mr4_2zus2Hq9=ArpR-ya6FNxxqXWvDxLGTsHsH4-XuM=CQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-11 19:13 ` João Távora
2020-06-12 14:18 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-12 16:02 ` João Távora
2020-06-13 9:23 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-13 13:41 ` João Távora
2020-06-13 15:46 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-06-13 16:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
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