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

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:09:51 -0700
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>
> So this is only for those who'd like to see the source by default,
> instead of explicitly requesting that?

Yes of course! A strictly opt-in feature. Defcustom is for that purpose.