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| From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
| Subject: | Re: symbol-file |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:32:16 +0200 |
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martin rudalics wrote:
(symbol-file 'ediff-directories 'defun)
currently returns "ediff" which contradicts the doc-string saying
The value is an absolute file name.
It can also be nil, if the definition is not associated with any file.
I suggest we'd either fix the doc-string appropriately or return
(locate-file (nth 1 (symbol-function symbol)) load-path '(".el" ".elc"))
in the autoload case.
I think it would be best to return the absolute file name and then have a separate function file-name-in-load-path that just gives for example "ediff.el". The second function can then be used by the help functions to display the file name.
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