;;; help.el --- help commands for Emacs
-;; Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1993-1994, 1998-2011
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1993-1994, 1998-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: help, internal
;;; Commentary:
-;; This code implements GNU Emacs' on-line help system, the one invoked by
+;; This code implements GNU Emacs's on-line help system, the one invoked by
;; `M-x help-for-help'.
;;; Code:
(add-hook 'temp-buffer-setup-hook 'help-mode-setup)
(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook 'help-mode-finish)
-;; The variable `help-window' below is used by `help-mode-finish' to
-;; communicate the window displaying help (the "help window") to the
-;; macro `with-help-window'. The latter sets `help-window' to t before
-;; invoking `with-output-to-temp-buffer'. If and only if `help-window'
-;; is eq to t, `help-mode-finish' (called by `temp-buffer-setup-hook')
-;; sets `help-window' to the window selected by `display-buffer'.
-;; Exiting `with-help-window' and calling `help-print-return-message'
-;; reset `help-window' to nil.
-(defvar help-window nil
- "Window chosen for displaying help.")
-
;; `help-window-point-marker' is a marker you can move to a valid
;; position of the buffer shown in the help window in order to override
;; the standard positioning mechanism (`point-min') chosen by
For this to work correctly for a minor mode, the mode's indicator
variable \(listed in `minor-mode-alist') must also be a function
-whose documentation describes the minor mode."
+whose documentation describes the minor mode.
+
+If called from Lisp with a non-nil BUFFER argument, display
+documentation for the major and minor modes of that buffer."
(interactive "@")
(unless buffer (setq buffer (current-buffer)))
(help-setup-xref (list #'describe-mode buffer)
(error "Cannot find minor mode for `%s'" indicator))))
(defun lookup-minor-mode-from-indicator (indicator)
- "Return a minor mode symbol from its indicator on the modeline."
+ "Return a minor mode symbol from its indicator on the mode line."
;; remove first space if existed
(if (and (< 0 (length indicator))
(eq (aref indicator 0) ?\s))
The value is the maximum height (in lines) which
`resize-temp-buffer-window' will give to a window displaying a
temporary buffer. It can also be a function to be called to
-choose the height for such a buffer. It gets one argumemt, the
+choose the height for such a buffer. It gets one argument, the
buffer, and should return a positive integer. At the time the
function is called, the window to be resized is selected."
:type '(choice integer function)
:version "20.4")
(define-minor-mode temp-buffer-resize-mode
- "Toggle mode which makes windows smaller for temporary buffers.
-With prefix argument ARG, turn the resizing of windows displaying
-temporary buffers on if ARG is positive or off otherwise.
+ "Toggle auto-shrinking temp buffer windows (Temp Buffer Resize mode).
+With a prefix argument ARG, enable Temp Buffer Resize mode if ARG
+is positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp,
+enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
-This mode makes a window the right height for its contents, but
-never more than `temp-buffer-max-height' nor less than
-`window-min-height'.
+When Temp Buffer Resize mode is enabled, the windows in which we
+show a temporary buffer are automatically reduced in height to
+fit the buffer's contents, but never more than
+`temp-buffer-max-height' nor less than `window-min-height'.
This mode is used by `help', `apropos' and `completion' buffers,
and some others."
not vertically combined or some of its contents are scrolled out
of view."
(when (and (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-min))
- (window-iso-combined-p))
+ (window-combined-p))
(fit-window-to-buffer
nil
(if (functionp temp-buffer-max-height)
:group 'help
:version "23.1")
+(defcustom help-enable-auto-load t
+ "Whether Help commands can perform autoloading.
+If non-nil, whenever \\[describe-function] is called for an
+autoloaded function whose docstring contains any key substitution
+construct (see `substitute-command-keys'), the library is loaded,
+so that the documentation can show the right key bindings."
+ :type 'boolean
+ :group 'help
+ :version "24.3")
+
(defun help-window-display-message (quit-part window &optional scroll)
"Display message telling how to quit and scroll help window.
QUIT-PART is a string telling how to quit the help window WINDOW.
(defmacro with-help-window (buffer-name &rest body)
"Display buffer with name BUFFER-NAME in a help window evaluating BODY.
Select help window if the actual value of the user option
-`help-window-select' says so. Return last value in BODY.
-
-You can specify where and how to show the buffer by binding the
-variable `temp-buffer-show-specifiers' to an appropriate value."
+`help-window-select' says so. Return last value in BODY."
(declare (indent 1) (debug t))
`(progn
;; Make `help-window-point-marker' point nowhere. The only place