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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
Cc: 17180@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17180: [PATCH] eldoc doesn't find docstrings for variable aliases
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:37:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy4zms4c8.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANdFEAE+xFWUs=sGFDp4J0B6uALRBtGBgA8DCzdP1nicr-6OZQ@mail.gmail.com> (josh@foxtail.org's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2014 09:40:30 -0700")

> Incidentally, I wondered whether this would be better addressed
> within `documentation-property' itself

Yes, it should be fixed there directly.

> but I wasn't sure it would be correct to preclude the possibility of
> unique docstrings between aliases and their targets.

documentation-property should simply first check variable-documentation
and only when that fails, follow the alias indirection.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03 17:37 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 [this message]
2019-06-26 14:27   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-26 14:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-26 14:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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