Re: find-function-source-directory

[Richard Copley]

On 18 February 2018 at 19:35, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:40:50 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>   (setq find-function-source-path
>>     '("c:/projects/emacs/lisp/"
>>       "c:/projects/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/"
>>       "c:/projects/emacs/lisp/net/"
>>       ...))
>>
>> (add more subdirectories instead of the ellipsis).
>
> This notwithstanding, I think that doc string is misleading: what you
> want to accomplish isn't possible, because find-function-source-path
> cannot override load-path in this use case.  Or maybe I'm missing
> something.

Ah, thanks. (Sorry, I missed this message earlier.)
I'm wondering if there is there any use for
find-function-source-path, if not that. Perhaps it
is an ex-feature?