Re: Documentation by function beyond elisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000
> From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > > For elisp files, emacs has the capability of showing documentation by 
> > > function. A valuable tool
> > > would be to extend such functionality to others like bash and awk. 
> > > Perhaps one can come up
> > > with something that could work beautifully. Have there been an ideas for 
> > > such capability extension
> > > before?
> > 
> > 
> > Did you try "C-h S"?
> 
> That does not work for user-defined awk functions, complaining that a 
> function name
> is not a symbol.

That's true.  But you never said anything about user-defined in your
OP...