bug#65270: 30.0.50; `describe-function' issue with some methods

[David Ponce]

On 15/08/2023 04:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > It seems there is an issue with `describe-function' of a method that
> > calls `cl-call-next-method'.  For a such method `describe-function' says
> > that the method is "Undocumented" even if a doc string is present.
>
> I pushed a patch to `master` which seems to fix this problem.
>
> > Also the mentioned signature is weird.  See an illustration below using
> > a simple recipe, running 'emacs -Q'.
>
> I think we still have a problem here when the method is not
> byte-compiled, but I think the problem is in `help-function-arglist`
> which decides to use the "raw arglist" from the interpreted closure
> without looking at the arg names stashed in the docstring.
>
>
>          Stefan

Hello Stefan,

I confirm that your patch fixed the issue with doc string, and with
arglist of byte-compiled methods (which is probably the common case).

Thank you very much!