GNU bug report logs - #60568
[FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for generated functions

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: 60568 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60568: [FR] 30.0.50; Help buffers and function bodies for
 generated functions
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:52:45 +0000

Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es> writes:

> I'd prefer we teach the Help facilities how to go to the source code of
> that kind of functions.  Some years ago, I added support for go to
> definition from *Help* buffers when the symbol was generated by a Lisp
> macro; there's no reason we couldn't extend the code to also handle this
> particular case.

Could you point to the implementation?

> Showing the source code inline is something I feel more suitable for
> third-party packages.  It is probably more interesting from a core Emacs
> perspective to make sure that help-mode provides the appropriate hooks
> for users and packages to customize what to show without needing to
> reimplement *Help* from scratch.  I don't know what other people think,
> my opinion about this may be a minority.

+1 from me.

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