Re: Patch proposal: display symbol source code in help buffers

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I haven't tried the patch, but this is for showing the source code of
> the function/variable in question in the *Help* buffer?  I'm not quite
> sure I understand the utility of that -- if you want to look at the
> source, you can just hit the `s' key.  And then you get all the proper
> language-related Emacs stuff in that buffer -- looking at sources is
> usually nicer in the correct major mode than in other buffers.
>
> So I don't understand who'd want this.

I believe this is a feature in helpful.el:

https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful/blob/master/screenshots/helpful_source.png

FWIW, I personally also ask myself why/how this is useful.  Is it
because some users don't know that you can get to the source code?

That said, I don't see any reason not to have this as an optional
feature, if some users find that it works well for them.