[Patches] [ python-Patches-545439 ] interactive help in python-mode
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Patches item #545439, was opened at 2002-04-17 19:31
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Category: Demos and tools
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Assigned to: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Summary: interactive help in python-mode
Initial Comment:
If you apply the patch from bug 545436 to
python-mode.el, the attached code allows programmers
to get help from pydoc about the current possibly
dotted expression.
This is just a quick-n-dirty hack, but seems at
least marginally useful.
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>Comment By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Date: 2002-04-22 13:15
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The patch works for me for methods but fails for
symbols. I hadn't tried it for something like
"sys.platform" before, so I'm pretty sure my original
patch failed for that as well. When I ask for help on
sys.platform it complains about "no help for 'linux2'".
That makes sense, since it's asking for
pydoc.help(sys.platform)
Too bad Python doesn't have Lisp's quote feature! <0.5
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Ooh! Ooh! Pydoc *does* understand quoting! Try
pydoc.help("sys.platform")
pydoc.help("sys.exc_info")
Looks like the help arg should always be quoted.
A couple other suggestions:
* How about binding py-help-at-point to [F1]?
* How about adding the following two lines to the
end of py-help-at-point:
(set-buffer "*Python Output*")
(help-mode)
That puts point in the *P O* buffer and makes it
easy to dump the help buffer when you're through
with it (just press 'q').
S
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Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-04-22 12:12
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Skip, check out the attached patch. This ought to work in
Emacs too. It binds py-help-at-point to C-c C-h.
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Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-04-22 11:46
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One problem with your patch is that symbol-near-point is a
XEmacs-ism. I think we can fix that, and avoid the need to
"regexp-unquote" the return value by just inlining what we
need of symbol-near-point. I'll work out that patch and
check it in if it works.
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Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller)
Date: 2002-04-18 02:05
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FYI, a *somewhat* similar thing can be found at bug 541031.
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