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bug#65288: 30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers
From: |
Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
bug#65288: 30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:51:26 +0000 |
Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
> Can a user option be added to not show the "Type:" annotation in *Help*
> buffers for certain functions? An example is `char-after'
>
> char-after is a built-in function in ‘src/editfns.c’.
>
> (char-after &optional POS) Type: (function (&optional (or marker
> integer)) (or null (integer -2305843009213693952
> 2305843009213693951)))
>
> Return character in current buffer at position POS.
> POS is an integer or a marker and defaults to point.
> If POS is out of range, the value is nil.
>
> If not a user option, can it be moved after the docstring?
Only functions have types, these are not the same types those given to
user options.
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?
bug#65288: 30.0.50; Make Type: annotation optional in *Help* buffers, Visuwesh, 2023/08/14