New M-x eldoc for on-demand and interactive documentation requests

The function eldoc is just an alias for
eldoc-print-current-symbol-info, which is made interactive.

* lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el (eldoc-print-current-symbol-info): Now an
interactive function.
(eldoc): Alias to eldoc-print-current-symbol-info.

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
index bcf3a84d31996bdc2617db8f9e2515e4ae30387c..7a70500183315396bb73ef4107c1422b20a940c5 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
@@ -595,8 +595,11 @@ documentation themselves."
 (defvar eldoc--enthusiasm-curbing-timer nil
   "Timer used by `eldoc-documentation-enthusiast' to avoid blinking.")
 
+(defalias 'eldoc #'eldoc-print-current-symbol-info)
+
 (defun eldoc-print-current-symbol-info ()
   "Document thing at point."
+  (interactive)
   (if (not (eldoc-display-message-p))
       ;; Erase the last message if we won't display a new one.
       (when eldoc-last-message