From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>, 17180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17180: [PATCH] eldoc doesn't find docstrings for variable aliases
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:35:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh88cqutm.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ef3g1ky0.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:27:03 +0200")
> + /* If we don't have any documentation for this symbol, try to see whether
> + it's an indirect variable and get the documentation from there instead. */
> + if (NILP (tem))
> + {
> + Lisp_Object indirect = Findirect_variable (symbol);
> + if (!NILP (indirect))
> + tem = Fget (indirect, prop);
> + }
In theory documentation-property can be used for any property, so it's
not necessarily specific to variables. IOW I think we should only do
that if `prop` is `variable-documentation`.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-03 16:40 bug#17180: [PATCH] eldoc doesn't find docstrings for variable aliases Josh
2014-04-03 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-26 14:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-26 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-06-26 14:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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