auto-whereis for M-x (REVISED)

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From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 20:12

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GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Tue Oct 31 1989 on marat (hpux)

I tried to create a version of M-x which does a where-is to tell you
if the command you just entered had a short form.  Using this-command
doesn't work when there are nested commands (e.g. M-x replace-string);
last-command doesn't help.  What you need is the last execute-
extended-command's this_command.

(defun execute-extended-command* ()
  (interactive)
  (call-interactively 'execute-extended-command)
  (where-is this-command))		; Lose


First version of this note forgot to mention the other problem:

what to do when the command has echo area output.

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From: macrakis@ri.osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: auto-whereis for M-x (REVISED)
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