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A better Emacs *help* buffer
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Question about helpful--start-buffer #227

Closed casouri closed 4 years ago

casouri commented 4 years ago

I'm using helpful as a backend and sometimes I can't provide a helpful--start-buffer for it. Will nil-valued helpful--start-buffer and helpful--associated-buffer cause any problem? Thanks.

Wilfred commented 4 years ago

That's absolutely fine :)

helpful--start-buffer is just used for the default value when prompting the user for a buffer.

helpful--associated-buffer is used when viewing the buffer-local value of a variable.

They're nil by default anyway. You shouldn't need to use private helpful--foo variables, so I'm interested to hear if you have any cases of variables that should be public helpful-foo.

casouri commented 4 years ago

Thanks. I'm using my ghelp and I wrote a helpful backend for it. So there is no need to make them public for normal use cases.