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Wilfred
A better Emacs *help* buffer
I really like the fact that `describe-key` says what key I pressed in emacs's kbd syntax ``` runs the command scroll-up-command... ``` Whereas `helpful-key` does not ``` scroll-up-command is an...
An unbound symbol can still have symbol properties. Without this, it is painful to eg. look for where a button type or a face is defined. The way I merged...
Recent discussion on emacs-devel reminded me about the facemenu commands, and I wanted to look at the documentation for them. Using helpful to look at facemenu-menu gives me a helpful...
This lists every new style advice (nadvice.el) of a callable in the Advice section instead of simply saying that it is advised. Further, a button is provided for each advice...
It'd be really slick if we could link to manpages. ``` emacs-lisp (defun my-crazy-function () "Use Git configuration variables to do fancy things. See (man)git-config." '(blah blah blah)) ``` In...
Pardon me if this doesn't belong here; I find the ideas in this package very powerful and seamless, that it could be applied more generally (than just emacs lisp). Are...
By setting local variables helpful--previous-symbol-and-callable and helpful--next-symbol-and-callable. Fixes #250. Partially Fixes #165.
Hi Wilfred, so: now eev has support for helpful! If a person has both eev and helpful and she types `M-h M-h` or `M-x find-here-links` in a helpful buffer then...
Context: I'm (still) using parinfer-mode, which is quite slow for large files. When looking up definitions in large files like org.el or flycheck.el, the slow minor mode ends up being...
I reported the problem here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54230 (I thought the bug resides in Emacs.)
