Re: Documentation by function beyond elisp

[goncholden]

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On Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 3:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:01:31 +0000
> > From: goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> 
> That's true. But you never said anything about user-defined in your
> OP...

Am now more specific then, because for elisp files it is understood that
documentation strings relate beyond the built-in functions.