GNU bug report logs - #669
23.0.60; defalias is not taken into account by C-h k

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:30:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #55 received at 669 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#669: 23.0.60; defalias is not taken into account by C-h k
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:03:12 -0400

> Clicking on
> - the "setcar" link gets me to the Help buffer for `setcar',
> - the ".../subr.el" link gets me to the location of the defalias.
> I suppose we shouldn't change that behavior.

Indeed we don't want to change that: having access to the defalias
itself is more important than saving a click in the case the user wants
to access the actual function body.


        Stefan
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