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29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:26:41 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at,  60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:14:04 -0500
> 
> >> We may as well revert that part of my patch.
> > I don't think that would be TRT.  Emacs behaves like that in other
> > places, so why this one should be different?  Such inconsistency can
> > confusing.
> 
> It's quite unusual to ask for the `describe-function` of a symbol that's
> not defined as a function and it won't give you very much info.

I'm afraid of use cases where the user didn't know whether a function
is or isn't defined.  Human memory isn't perfect.  I frequently forget
whether the function is buffer-process or get-buffer-process, for
example.

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