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Agreed. It’s so good it feels like it should have been that way all along. For example, when you view the help for a function Emacs has always given you a link
by db48x 5y ago
Agreed. It’s so good it feels like it should have been that way all along. For example, when you view the help for a function Emacs has always given you a link to the source code where that function is defined. Helpful shows you the source code right in the Help buffer, and shows you a list of callers, and gives you buttons that enable tracing or debugging for the function.
Once I discovered Helpful, all of those things seemed so obviously useful that I can’t understand why nobody else thought to put them there, including myself.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoThe best part is the forget function, for when functions are incompatible. As an example, lsp won't work for me unless I forget the project-root function from ess-r (I have no idea why this hasn't been fixed) and helpful makes this a two or three key activity.