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25.1.50; `describe-bindings' request: show `??' definitions

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 24235 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24235: 25.1.50; `describe-bindings' request: show `??' definitions
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:18:36 -0700 (PDT)

> The calling sequence for this command is slightly convoluted, but it
> turns out that help.el calls basically
>   (describe-buffer-bindings buffer nil nil)
> which is a C function (but why?) which inserts all the
> 
> C-n		next-line
> C-o		open-line
> C-H-w		??
> 
> stuff, which is then post-processed to add the xref links.  So at the
> point where the xref is added, then there's no feasible way to
> determine what the ?? referred to, really, without redoing the work the C
> function had already done...
> 
> I think.
> 
> Anybody?

I don't have a solution suggestion.  But maybe
a start would be to move this from C to Lisp?
(Just a suggestion.  Dunno whether there's a
good reason why it's still in C.)

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