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24.3.50; wish: following a variable name should show the value from initial buffer

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Message #8 received at 16792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 16792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16792: 24.3.50;
 wish: following a variable name should show the value from initial
 buffer
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:45:41 -0500

So you're saying that describe-function should remember in which buffer
it was invoked, in case we use describe-variable from the resulting
*Help* buffer.

It's not a terribly bad idea, but to the extent that functions can't be
buffer-local, it'd be an ad-hoc hack.  It wouldn't be the first ad-hoc
hack by the long shot, but I'm not sure I'd like to add this one.


        Stefan

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