bug#21950: 25.1.50; find-lisp-object-file-name sometimes cannot find file-name

[Stephen Leake]

Tino Calancha <f92capac@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Stephe,
>
>> You are passing 'dired as the TYPE argument, which is undocumented, so
>> it's not surprising it doesn't do what you want.
>
> Exactly, that was my example to pointing out the issue.
> In emacs version < 25 find-lisp-object-file-name automatically
> replaced 'dired by 'defun, so the user file containing the alias is
> always found.

That change was made in this commit:

   commit 24b7f77581c7eefe484db6cbbd661c04460c66aa
   Committer : Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
   CommitDate: Fri Jan 16 22:52:15 2015 -0500

      Improve handling of doc-strings and describe-function for cl-generic

So I'm guessing we don't want to change it back.

>> How did you stumble into this?
> I have code relying of such behaviour (probably i should rewrite it in
> a more robust way): 

Yes. Please give that a try. If it's difficult, we can see if there is a
way to satisfy both your use case and cl-generic.

-- 
-- Stephe