Re: Using button to display a help menu

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:34:22 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sunday, August 27th, 2023 at 9:00 PM, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 06:32:29 +0000 Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Have made a function called 'maces' that is intended to show a button
>> > called 'Organis' to display a help page as defined in 'maces-organis'.
>> > Although I get the button 'Organis', when I press it, I get
>> >
>> > --------
>> >
>> > (wrong-number-of-arguments ((t) nil "Prints information about Maces
>> > Organis." (interactive) (help--window-setup (help-buffer) #'(lambda nil
>> > (insert-button "[F7]" 'action 'maces-action-organis 'follow-link t)
>> > (insert " Maces Organis \n")))) 1) maces-organis(#<overlay from 72 to 76
>> > in Help>)
>> >
>> > --------
>> >
>> > (defun maces-organis ()
>> > "Prints information about Maces Organis."
>> > (interactive)
>> >
>> > (with-help-window (help-buffer)
>> > (insert-button "[F7]" 'action 'maces-action-organis 'follow-link t)
>> > (insert " Maces Organis \n") ))
>> >
>> > (defun maces ()
>> > "Prints information about Maces."
>> > (interactive)
>> >
>> > (with-help-window (help-buffer)
>> > (insert-button "[Organis]" 'action 'maces-organis 'follow-link t)
>> > (insert " Maces Organis \n") ))
>>
>>
>> See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2023-07/msg00321.html
>>
>> Steve Berman
>
> Steve, does using a button always need a function taking a button argument?

I don't know any more about that than what I previously answered in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2023-07/msg00323.html;
see again also Yuri Khan's post
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2023-07/msg00335.html

Steve Berman