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27.0.50; improve help for advised functions

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>, 31063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31063: 27.0.50; improve help for advised functions
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:12:41 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>>>>>> (eval-defun EDEBUG-IT)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :override advice: ‘edebug-eval-defun’
>>>>>
>>>>> (where ":override advice:" is highlighted in orange)
>>>>>
>>>>> Could we please remove (or amend) the orange color for readability,
>>>>
>>>> I also removed the warning face, but feel free to put that back if
>>>> somebody thinks that this deserves a warning.  It seemed a bit too
>>>> dramatic to me.
>>>
>>> It could have a link on ":override advice:" clicking on which will
>>> visit the advice definition.
>>
>> That would be nice.  Do we have that information?
>
> I remember that old defadvice had some link in the Help buffer, but
> now I can't confirm this.  But for new nadvice maybe this will work:
> if a piece of advice is at least a function defined by `defun' then
> maybe it's possible to display the body of advice with a link to the
> function defined by `defun'?

Hm...  isn't that what that `edebug-eval-defun' thing up there is,
though?

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