Re: mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable'

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:04:45 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Perhaps the best thing is simply to tell the user how to put in the
> arglist info when making an alias for a builtin function.  That is
> definitely a simple method.

I agree; it is much better than doing obscure tricks in `defalias', IMO.
But it'd be also necessary to modify `help-split-fundoc' to allow for a
different function name in the arglist info, so you can say:

(defalias 'get-item
          'aref
          "Return TABLE[INDEX].\n(get-item TABLE INDEX)")

and get the arglist info (now you don't).





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