Subject: Re: bug#69462: 29.2.50; describe-function should support finding references

From: Eshel Yaron <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:20:11 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 03/10/2024 10:14, Eshel Yaron wrote:
>> Looks nice!  What's somewhat nonideal is that the ELisp-specific Xref
>> setup lingers in the Help buffer even if it is reused for other purposes
>> (like dictionary words when dictionary-display-definition-function is
>> set to dictionary-display-definition-in-help-buffer).
>> Perhaps help-setup-xref should kill the local variables that
>> help-fns--setup-xref-backend now sets?
>
> Thanks, good idea, pushed as bde00266db4.

Great, I pushed a small fix for this change in 9f54f24e94d, and I
submitted a patch in bug#73637 that generalizes this kind of clean up.

Best,

Eshel