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bug#49587: Where are links in describe-symbol minor-mode?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#49587: Where are links in describe-symbol minor-mode? |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:47:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> No, I think it was just implemented that way because it was simple. As
> somebody said in this thread, those functions should be rewritten
> "inside out" -- i.e., separate out the stuff inside those commands that
> actually generate the text to that they can be reused. I'll have a go
> at doing that...
And looking at this yet again, I really think all of these functions
should be radically rewritten -- they're incredibly convoluted at
present. That is, pass in explicitly describe-function-orig-buffer etc
instead of the weird dance, and stop using standard-output for half of
the functions, because it really doesn't help.
But it's a pretty big job, and there few tests to detect if something
goes wrong (as it inevitably will)...
I'll come back to it later, and I'm leaving this bug report open.
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