GNU bug report logs - #39295
26.3; kbd-help property is undocumented

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 39295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39295: 26.3; kbd-help property is undocumented
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:04:15 +0200

> From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:03:12 -0500
> 
> The docstring for `help-at-pt-string' mentions a `kbd-help'
> property, but this property is not mentioned in either the
> emacs or elisp manuals.
> 
> The commentary to help-at-pt.el mentions that it is a new
> property though it's not clear how new and it doesn't seem
> to be used in the rest of emacs 26 lisp source. 

It indeed is unused, so I'm not sure it should be documented at this
time.  As for "new": the help-at-pt.el file was added to Emacs 17
years ago, and its original version already included support for this
property.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 326 days ago.

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