Function: helpful--describe-exactly

helpful--describe-exactly is a natively compiled function defined in helpful.el.

Signature

(helpful--describe-exactly BUTTON)

Documentation

Describe the symbol that this BUTTON represents.

This differs from helpful--describe because here we know whether the symbol represents a variable or a callable.

Source Code

;; Defined in /nix/store/mvfc1hll8a1f23ivm3qmzj4bn64jr3x7-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/helpful-20250408.334/helpful.el
(defun helpful--describe-exactly (button)
  "Describe the symbol that this BUTTON represents.
This differs from `helpful--describe' because here we know
whether the symbol represents a variable or a callable."
  (let ((sym (button-get button 'symbol))
        (callable-p (button-get button 'callable-p)))
    (if callable-p
        (helpful-callable sym)
      (helpful-variable sym))))