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Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers
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Arthur Miller |
Subject: |
Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:27:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:09:51 -0700
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>> > So I don't understand who'd want this.
>>
>> I believe this is a feature in helpful.el:
>>
>> https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful/blob/master/screenshots/helpful_source.png
>>
>> FWIW, I personally also ask myself why/how this is useful. Is it
>> because some users don't know that you can get to the source code?
>>
>> That said, I don't see any reason not to have this as an optional
>> feature, if some users find that it works well for them.
>
> So this is only for those who'd like to see the source by default,
> instead of explicitly requesting that?
Yes of course! A strictly opt-in feature. Defcustom is for that purpose.
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, (continued)
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, martin rudalics, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers,
Arthur Miller <=
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/21
- Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/21
Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Arthur Miller, 2021/09/20
Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/20