bug#12149: 24.1; `C-h f' is worse and worse at telling where a function was defined

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Nicolas Richard <nrichard@ulb.ac.be> writes:

> Anyway, back to the topic, I tried loading a file test.el with content:
>
> (defun do-silly-things nil
>   (defun scroll-up (&optional arg)
>     "Do nothing and pretend all is fine."
>     t))
>
> (provide 'test)
>
> then run "emacs -Q -l test -f do-silly-things" and finally describe the
> function scroll-up. The result was that emacs did not tell where the
> function is defined, only that it's a Lisp function/closure. i.e. this
> matches what Lars said.

Thanks for checking, Nicolas.

This has probably been fixed after Drew's bug report.  Closing.

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