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What do these characters in the describe-function completion minibuffer mean? (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by ruby_on_rawrls@alien.top to c/emacs
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[–] whudwl@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] ruby_on_rawrls@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

For some reason my emacs does not show me =(

[–] MitchellMarquez42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

m is macro, f is function, c is command. Not sure what p stands for. @ denotes an alias I think

[–] adx@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

P is a primitive function which is written in C

[–] rileyrgham@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Lol. I just realised I never knew. Thanks!

[–] fuzzbomb23@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

For a complete list, see the documentation of the marginalia--symbol-class function.