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diff --git a/doc/emacs/help.texi b/doc/emacs/help.texi index 2513e6be271..945e12a05d2 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/help.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/help.texi @@ -317,6 +317,16 @@ by using the @kbd{M-x shortdoc} command. This will prompt you for an area of interest, e.g., @code{string}, and pop you to a buffer where many of the functions relevant for handling strings are listed. +You can also request that documentation of functions and commands +shown in @file{*Help*} buffers popped by @kbd{C-h f} includes examples +of their use. To that end, add the following to your initialization +file (@pxref{Init File}): + +@example +(add-hook 'help-fns-describe-function-functions + #'shortdoc-help-fns-examples-function) +@end example + @kindex C-h v @findex describe-variable @kbd{C-h v} (@code{describe-variable}) is like @kbd{C-h f} but |