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bug#12149: 24.1; `C-h f' is worse and worse at telling where a function
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#12149: 24.1; `C-h f' is worse and worse at telling where a function was defined |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:23:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nicolas Richard <nrichard@ulb.ac.be> writes:
> Anyway, back to the topic, I tried loading a file test.el with content:
>
> (defun do-silly-things nil
> (defun scroll-up (&optional arg)
> "Do nothing and pretend all is fine."
> t))
>
> (provide 'test)
>
> then run "emacs -Q -l test -f do-silly-things" and finally describe the
> function scroll-up. The result was that emacs did not tell where the
> function is defined, only that it's a Lisp function/closure. i.e. this
> matches what Lars said.
Thanks for checking, Nicolas.
This has probably been fixed after Drew's bug report. Closing.
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