GNU bug report logs - #6652
[Feature Request] [emacs] location of file for help for variables and functions should list full path

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From: Terrence Brannon <schemelab <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [Feature Request] [emacs] location of file for help for variables and
	functions should list full path
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:06:46 -0400

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*When debugging load-path issues, one often wonders where a function or
variable was defined. Since the help-for-help for a variable only lists the
file of a function, you have to click on the file link, then find the
default-directory for that file to see what file it really was loaded from.*
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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6652: [Feature Request] [emacs] location of file for help
	for variables and functions should list full path
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:23:47 -0600

Terrence Brannon wrote:
> *When debugging load-path issues, one often wonders where a function or 
> variable was defined. Since the help-for-help for a variable only lists 
> the file of a function, you have to click on the file link, then find 
> the default-directory for that file to see what file it really was 
> loaded from.*

In the *Help* buffer, TAB to the hyperlink, then M-x locate-library --
oops, locate-library does not provide a default for its LIBRARY argument
when called interactively [patch forthcoming].

So, TAB to the hyperlink, then C-u C-x =.  Search for help-args, then
TAB to the [Show] hyperlink (or move to the end of the buffer and M-TAB
to [Show]).  RET (or mouse-2) will display the full file name in the
*Pp Eval Output* buffer.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Message #13 received at 6652-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6679-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com,
 6652-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6679: locate-library does not provide a default when called
 interactively
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:01:08 +0300

> From: Štěpán Němec
>  <stepnem <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:59:44 +0100
> Cc: 6679 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:14:09 -0600
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> 
> > Assuming that complexity is justified, it ought to be factored into a
> > read-library-name utility that both find-library and locate-library use.
> 
> The first part has since happened (`read-library-name'), all that is
> needed is the latter. Patch attached.
> 
> > `C-h a -library\'' returns apropos-library and load-library in addition to
> > find-library and locate-library, but it's not clear to me that they would
> > benefit from a default.
> 
> The patch also handles `load-library'. The set of arguments/completions
> expected/provided by `apropos-library' is slightly different and
> requires other validation, so `read-library-name' wouldn't really help
> there.

Thanks, pushed to the master branch.

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