spacemacs/layers/+emacs/helpful

helpful layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
• Key bindings

Description

This layer supports the helpful package, which extends the Emacs help buffer to include things like references and source code.

Features:

• Better help buffers with helpful
• Source code
• Callers
• Prettier docstrings

Install

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add helpful to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Key bindings

Key Binding	Description
SPC h h h	Open helpful buffer for item under point
SPC h h k	Open helpful buffer for key binding
SPC h h f	Open helpful buffer for any callable object
SPC h h v	Open helpful buffer for variable