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Re: redirected 'help' output?


From: Marius Vollmer
Subject: Re: redirected 'help' output?
Date: 04 Nov 2000 20:25:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7

Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:

> help is a macro.

What is the reason that help is a macro?  (It's actually a `syntax',
not a macro, which is even worse.)

If help needs to be a macro or syntax, I think there should be a nice
interface to the help system that can be used programmatically with
out using tricks like this

> (with-output-to-string 
>   (lambda () ((macro-transformer help) (list 'help 'cons) the-environment)))



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