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Re: redirected 'help' output?
From: |
Matthias Koeppe |
Subject: |
Re: redirected 'help' output? |
Date: |
02 Nov 2000 10:52:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 |
"Dale P. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
> Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to redirect the output of "help" to a text widget, but
> > it's not obvious to me how to do this:
> >
> > /home/bil/cl/ guile
> > guile> (version)
> > "1.4"
> > guile> (with-output-to-string (lambda () (help cons)))
> > ERROR: In procedure length in expression (length exp):
> > ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1: (address@hidden cons)
> > ABORT: (wrong-type-arg)
>
> Did you ever find a fix for this?
>
help is a macro. Here is what I use:
(with-output-to-string
(lambda () ((macro-transformer help) (list 'help 'cons) the-environment)))
--
Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Dale P. Smith, 2000/11/01
- Re: redirected 'help' output?,
Matthias Koeppe <=
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Marius Vollmer, 2000/11/04
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/06
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Bill Schottstaedt, 2000/11/07
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Marius Vollmer, 2000/11/11
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/17
- Re: redirected 'help' output?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/17
Re: redirected 'help' output?, Bill Schottstaedt, 2000/11/02