Re: Documentation by function beyond elisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000
> From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 12:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:33:02 +0000
> > > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > > 
> > > For elisp files, emacs has the capability of showing documentation by 
> > > function. A valuable tool
> > > would be to extend such functionality to others like bash and awk. 
> > > Perhaps one can come up
> > > with something that could work beautifully. Have there been an ideas for 
> > > such capability extension
> > > before?
> > 
> > 
> > Did you try "C-h S"?
> 
> That does not work for user-defined awk functions, complaining that a 
> function name
> is not a symbol.

You could teach etags about Awk programs and shell scripts.  Or maybe
some variant of the tags program out there already supports those, in
which case Emacs should be able to give you what you want for free,
after you run that tags program on your Awk/Bash source files.