Subject: bug#60432: closed (Re: bug#60432: 28.2; Doc of `defalias')

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:04:03 +0000

Your bug report

#60432: 28.2; Doc of `defalias'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#60432: 28.2; Doc of `defalias'
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:03:14 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:38:37 -0500
> 
> It can also be a "special form" (e.g. what you have in (symbol-function
> 'if)), or a keymap, or a symbol (alias) or a vector or string (kdb
> macro).
> 
> Of course, it can also be any other kind of value, tho in that case
> it'll only be useful if the symbol is treated in an ad-hoc manner
> elsewhere, since "normal" use (such as evaluating something of the form
> `(SYMBOL ...) or adding SYMBOL as the command to use in a keymap) would
> then lead to an error.

Thanks, I updated the manual with this information, and I'm closing
the bug.

Subject: 28.2; Doc of `defalias'
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:09:29 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The doc (doc string and Elisp manual) doesn't make clear that "function"
in this context applies also to Lisp macros.  Please make that clear.

In GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2022-09-13 built on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19044
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19044.2364)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation
 --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)