GNU bug report logs - #22866
24.5; 'C-h S' leads to inaccurate result

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Shiyao Ma <i <at> introo.me>

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:29:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: i <at> introo.me, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 22866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22866: 24.5; 'C-h S' leads to inaccurate result
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 15:09:00 -0800

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I think the way to solve this is to have a new Help command that would
> specifically look up a function name in the ELisp manual.

Just FYI, the info-look module can be configured to also look up things in the
elisp manual. I've been using it to do this for years now, via
`info-lookup-symbol'. And it's already part of Emacs, so we'd just need to
integrate by default.

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