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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 25461@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25461: Missing doc strings for "," and ",@".
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:41:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170117204119.GC4169@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k29t5sqp.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

Hello, Andreas.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 09:36:14PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 17 2017, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> > I think I want some means of displaying "their doc strings".  They're much
> > more like functions than variables,

> They are neither, just syntactic elements.

I don't expect the typical novice Elisp hacker cares about such nice
distinctions.  She can get a doc string for `, so why not one for , or
,@?

Anyway, I'm going to be providing a patch to do this.  We'll see whether
people like it or not.

> Andreas.

> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
> GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
> "And now for something completely different."

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-17 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-16 21:22 bug#25461: Missing doc strings for "," and ",@" Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-17 19:34 ` Glenn Morris
2017-01-17 19:56   ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-17 20:36     ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-17 20:41       ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2017-01-17 20:53         ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-18  1:44         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-18 19:28           ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found] ` <handler.25461.B.148460180922707.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2017-01-18 19:43   ` bug#25461: [Patch]: " Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-19  0:16     ` npostavs
2017-01-19 17:37       ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-19 18:10         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-19 18:36           ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-20  0:24             ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-19  2:23     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-19 17:58       ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-20  0:12         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-20 16:58           ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-21  2:26             ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-21 15:56               ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-21 20:46                 ` bug#25461: [Patch #2]: " Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24  1:58                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-01-24 19:43                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24  4:01                   ` npostavs
2017-01-24 19:39                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-01-24 20:00                       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-23 19:09               ` bug#25461: [Patch]: " Alan Mackenzie

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