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Currently it's not clear which variables are risky or buffer-local once set. See `imenu-create-index-function` for an example.

Wilfred

Don't create hyperlinks on 'symbol `foo''

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This is an Emacs convention for avoiding hyperlinks: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation-Tips.html We could maybe fontify it though. See `-map-indexed` in the most recent dash.el as an example.

Wilfred

Some function lookups using `helpful-function' yield `args-out-of-range'

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When I do a lookup on certain functions I consistently get this error. One example is `org-edit-special`: ``` Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 0 10) replace-match(#("ffap" 0 4 (button (t) category...

terlar

For example, from `paredit-backward-slurp-sexp`: ``` Key Bindings paredit-mode-map paredit-mode-map C-( paredit-mode-map ESC ``` The third keybinding here is redundant.

Wilfred

Don't show advice in the docstring

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E.g. see eval-defun.

Wilfred

No locations on defun's defined by macro's (e.g. use-package :defer t)

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(originally at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/6x2pnx/helpful_adding_contextual_help_to_emacs/dmddom3/ ) I'm not sure if this is a bug or just something that's impossible to do, but there's no location info on `my-foo` when you do `emacs...

unhammer

Add to GNU ELPA ?

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Well this package seems nice. Seeing as it is for Emacs Lisp reference, are you planning to put it into the GNU ELPA archive?

phil-s

Hi, Thanks for your work on helpful! I'm getting the test failure (helpful version is 0.19) when testing against GNU Emacs 28.1 (installed from the Debian archive, package version is...

dogsleg

Add a button to reset a variable to its standard value

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This patchset adds a button to Helpful buffers displaying non-callables (variables) to reset the value to its standard value when the current value differs.  After acting on `Reset`: 

nbarrientos

RFE: Duplicate help-mode's `c`, `i` and `s` bindings

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... for navigating to Customize, info and source, respectively. There is a listing of user-implementable code for `i` (info) in the discussion issue #263 about inheriting from help-mode.

PhilHudson