Help Is Underway

17 Jul 2023

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1. Help(ful)!

Help(ful)!

Today I stumbled on a small package called helpful. This package will extend the emacs help system. It provides a better way of displaying the help and is installed really quick. Just add the following lines:

(use-package helpful
  :bind
  ([remap describe-function] . helpful-callable)
  ([remap describe-variable] . helpful-variable)
  ([remap describe-command]  . helpful-command)
  ([remap describe-key]      . helpful-key))

Where I:

• use use-package to install a package
• map the helpful command to the different describe functions

And that is it for today. Small but simple update on the emacs help system.