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bug#17180: [PATCH] eldoc doesn't find docstrings for variable aliases
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#17180: [PATCH] eldoc doesn't find docstrings for variable aliases |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:37:05 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Incidentally, I wondered whether this would be better addressed
> within `documentation-property' itself
Yes, it should be fixed there directly.
> but I wasn't sure it would be correct to preclude the possibility of
> unique docstrings between aliases and their targets.
documentation-property should simply first check variable-documentation
and only when that fails, follow the alias indirection.
Stefan