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Re: Is there a `find-function-noselect' that does not resolve aliases?


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Is there a `find-function-noselect' that does not resolve aliases?
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:35:04 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:

> and we click on its button "/tmp/my.el" then this will jump to the
> definition of the alias `myalias2'... so somewhere in the code
> associated to that button there's a low-level way of jumping to the
> definition of an alias "WITHOUT resolving the alias".

The button already "knows" the defining file (see the properties).

What you search for happens earlier, when hitting C-h f.  Try to edebug
`help-fns-function-description-header', AFAIU that's the code that you
are looking for, at least in my Emacs master.

Michael.





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