Fwd: How do I get the docstring for a symbol from emacs?

Rudi C rudiwillalwaysloveyou at gmail.com
Mon May 24 08:38:26 UTC 2021


I have tried:

```
(sly-eval `(cl:documentation 'mapcar 'function) :cl)
```

But it doesn't work.

My use case is to add docstrings to my ivy completor, like this (so I also
need a way to do this for strings, not actual symbols):
[image: image.png]

PS: Does sly has its own mailing list(s)?
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