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| author | Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> | 2021-09-18 19:51:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2021-09-18 19:51:47 +0200 |
| commit | c53aff5de71d7c558c222c35fd1cda0298d834b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ba00719f60da1dc17be62cd304f1f2656a82917 /doc/emacs/help.texi | |
| parent | 32d85f7b89e21986bcfc7b9caa67ed2dc39f886a (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c53aff5de71d7c558c222c35fd1cda0298d834b1.tar.gz | |
Add new help-enable-symbol-autoload user option
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-fns--analyze-function): Use it.
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-enable-symbol-autoload): New user option.
* doc/emacs/help.texi (Name Help): Document it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/help.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/help.texi b/doc/emacs/help.texi index 0caab681d34..f7fcd207ee1 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/help.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/help.texi @@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ name is defined as a Lisp function. Type @kbd{C-g} to cancel the @kbd{C-h f} command if you don't really want to view the documentation. +@vindex help-enable-symbol-autoload + If you request help for an autoloaded function that doesn't have a +doc string, the @file{*Help*} buffer won't have any doc string to +display. If @code{help-enable-symbol-autoload} is non-@code{nil}, +Emacs will try to load the file the function is defined in to see +whether there's a doc string there. + @findex shortdoc-display-group You can get an overview of functions relevant for a particular topic by using the @kbd{M-x shortdoc-display-group} command. This will |