Function: helpful-function

helpful-function is an interactive and natively compiled function defined in helpful.el.

Signature

(helpful-function SYMBOL)

Documentation

Show help for function named SYMBOL.

See also helpful-macro, helpful-command and helpful-callable.

Key Bindings

This command is not in any keymaps.

Source Code

;; Defined in /nix/store/mvfc1hll8a1f23ivm3qmzj4bn64jr3x7-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/helpful-20250408.334/helpful.el
;;;###autoload
(defun helpful-function (symbol)
  "Show help for function named SYMBOL.

See also `helpful-macro', `helpful-command' and `helpful-callable'."
  (interactive
   (list (helpful--read-symbol
          "Function: "
          (helpful--callable-at-point)
          #'functionp)))
  (helpful--update-and-switch-buffer symbol t))