Distinguish vars and functions in #'symbol-file, #'describe-{function,variable} lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2008-12-22 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * loadhist.el (symbol-file): Add support for differentiating between variables and functions to #'symbol-file. * help.el (describe-function-1): (describe-variable): Call #'symbol-function explicitly with a 'defun or 'defvar argument, depending on whether we're looking for a variable or a function. * cus-face.el (custom-declare-face): Record information about the face in the load history; code taken from GNU, pre-GPLv3 revision 1.45. src/ChangeLog addition: 2008-12-22 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * symbols.c (Fdefine_function): * eval.c (define_function): Record explicitly that we're defining a function in the load history, in both these files.

--- a/src/symbols.c	Mon Dec 22 12:09:08 2008 +0000
+++ b/src/symbols.c	Mon Dec 22 14:07:48 2008 +0000
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
 {
   /* This function can GC */
   Ffset (symbol, newdef);
-  LOADHIST_ATTACH (symbol);
+  LOADHIST_ATTACH (Fcons (Qdefun, symbol));
   return newdef;
 }