GNU bug report logs - #13841
24.3.50; Regression - unreadable `C-h k' help

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:04:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Merged with 20157, 20942, 39848

Found in versions 24.3.50, 25.0.50, 26.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 13841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, larsi <at> gnus.org, 13841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#13841: 24.3.50; Regression - unreadable `C-h k' help
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:14:22 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

I agree that user help should show documentation, not just
Lisp code.  But certainly - far more important - not byte code.

The fix for this bug (and any that are similar) is to
use a named function with a doc string.  I think (hope)
we agree about that.

(We can disagree that if a user can read Lisp source code
then s?he should be able to also read byte code, or she
is just as likely to be able to do that.)
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