bug#17685: 24.3.91.1; help-C-file-name failes to create temp buffer " *DOC*"

[Stefan Guath]

Ok, I understand!

On 5 jun 2014, at 10:45, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> > (defun show-elisp-src-at-point ()
> >    (interactive)
> >    (message (find-lisp-object-file-name (variable-at-point) 'defvar)))
> >
> > Now, executing show-elisp-src-at-point with point on a C variable just 
> > returns the symbol 'C-source. With an optional variable enable-c-search in 
> > find-lisp-object-file-name, it could instead return the actual C source 
> > file name.
> >
> > I don't think an extra value in help-enable-auto-load would be of any help 
> > in these kind of cases (i.e. when used programmatically).
> 
> I thought about something like
> 
> (if (or (and (eq help-enable-auto-load 'create-doc)
>            (get-buffer-create " *DOC*"))
>       (get-buffer " *DOC*"))
>    (help-C-file-name type 'subr)
>  'C-source)
> 
> in `find-lisp-object-file-name'.
> 
> martin