How to read documentation in Help buffers
I have made a habit of using `describe-function` in situations when I want to know more about a function, or create my own little wrapper function around one to extend said function.
What I often struggle with in the Help buffer which then appears is to make sense of the argument list. Right now I have the documentation for `evil-yank` pulled up (I want to map the functionality of `yy` to `tt`, just gain understanding of how mappings, evil etc. work).
The documentation contains this line:
```(evil-yank BEG END &optional TYPE REGISTER YANK-HANDLER)```
The arguments `BEG` and `END` I understand, but the remaining three make little sense to me. In such situations, how should I go about figuring out the meaning of the arguments which are not clear, and which are also not described at all in the Help buffer?
https://redd.it/i5hf6s
@r_emacs
I have made a habit of using `describe-function` in situations when I want to know more about a function, or create my own little wrapper function around one to extend said function.
What I often struggle with in the Help buffer which then appears is to make sense of the argument list. Right now I have the documentation for `evil-yank` pulled up (I want to map the functionality of `yy` to `tt`, just gain understanding of how mappings, evil etc. work).
The documentation contains this line:
```(evil-yank BEG END &optional TYPE REGISTER YANK-HANDLER)```
The arguments `BEG` and `END` I understand, but the remaining three make little sense to me. In such situations, how should I go about figuring out the meaning of the arguments which are not clear, and which are also not described at all in the Help buffer?
https://redd.it/i5hf6s
@r_emacs