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30.0.50; output of describe-function
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#71117: 30.0.50; output of describe-function
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com, 71117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>> andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de
>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 11:17:39 -0400
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>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
>> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 71117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>> >> andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de
>> >> Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:25:05 -0400
>> >>
>> >> Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > Thinking of e.g. 'C-h 4' (for the "other-window" connotation) or 'C-h H'
>> >> > (for "current _H_elp buffer"); help-find-source would then be bound to
>> >> > 'C-h 4 s', for example.
>> >> >
>> >> > (info-other-window currently hogs 'C-h 4 i' unfortunately… though
>> >> > nowadays 'C-x 4 4 i' also works, and 'C-x 4 i' is currently free 🤔
>> >> >
>> >> > 'C-x 4 h' is also free to use as a prefix, but maybe a bit of a
>> >> > fingerful)
>> >> >
>> >> > Don't give too much weight to my ramblings; I find 'C-h z' a bit
>> >> > cryptic, but I don't know that my alternatives are better.
>> >>
>> >> I think those are actually good points, 'C-h z' is not very nice and
>> >> 'C-h 4 s' would be probably easier to remember as 's' has the same
>> >> meaning in the *Help* buffer it-self.
>> >
>> > I don't want to rebind "C-h 4 i", but "C-h 4 s" or "C-h 4 RET" should
>> > be good.
>> >
>> > This also needs an update in NEWS and the manual.
>>
>> Okay done, please have a look as usual.
>
> LGTM, thanks.
I feel I'm improving! 😀
>> Also, we have a warning now on master because lisp/ldefs-boot.el needs
>> to be regenerated. I did run admin/update_autogen but the diff is a
>> little bigger then I expected (is not only related to the introduced
>> function). Should I commit this? Do we have another way to regenerate
>> ldefs-boot.el we typically use?
>
> I never use admin/update_autogen, I just regenerate loaddefs.el (as in
> "make -C lisp autoloads-force") and the do what make-tarball.txt says:
>
> 5. Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el. After copying, edit
> ldefs-boot.el to add
>
> ;; no-byte-compile: t
>
> to its file-local variables section, otherwise make-dist will
> complain.
Noted
> And I just did that, so we should be okay for a while.
Thanks.
I'm closing this then, happy to reopen if necessary.
Andrea
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Hi,
often use ‘C-h f’, i.e. ‘describe-function’, in order to jump onto the
source code.
Which is done afterwards by a command calling ‘(switch-to-buffer
(other-buffer))’ followed by TAB, RET.
With recent Emacs, calling for example ‘C-h f list RET’, appears
"list is a ‘primitive-function’ in ‘C source code’".
Now the first active button is ‘primitive-function’, which is rather
basic and seldom of interest. So I have to tab twice - and by habit
often get the first, wrong one...
May it be possible to switch the button, like:
"list is defined in ‘C source code’, a ‘primitive-function’".
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Thanks,
Andreas
GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.33,
cairo version 1.16.0) of 2024-05-21
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