GNU bug report logs - #65288
30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 65288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#65288: 30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:25:06 +0200

On Mon, Aug 14 2023, Philip Kaludercic wrote:

> That being said, I agree that in cases like `char-after' the information
> of a very specific type like that one is limited.  I don't know if there
> is a sensible heuristic to reformat the type into something like
>
>   (function (&optional position) (or position null))
>
> using some kind of type aliasing, but it might be better to not
> highlight the information so prominently?

It would make sense to rewrite
  (integer -2305843009213693952 2305843009213693951)
as fixnum.

Helmut
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