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bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:32:13 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

>> In order to check all the doc strings in Emacs, all the libraries in
>> Emacs need to be loaded.  Unfortunately, Emacs crashes or becomes
>> unusable when doing this.  Some libraries need to be skipped.  This
>> could be because a library is loaded more than once since I use
>> `load-library' rather than `require'.

BTW, a common cause of ambiguity is minor modes which use the same
symbol as a function and as a variable.  But in most such cases, I think
the fix is not to fix the ambiguity but to make
describe-function/variable aware of minor-modes and display them in
a unified way (i.e. display a single *Help* buffer that shows the var
and the fun as a single entity, e.g. giving the args but also the link
to customize).


        Stefan





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