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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 6755@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6755: 24.0.50; Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string on separate line.
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:44:39 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <780890ec-8e55-4829-942f-b9daf3513908@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABczVwe3QoPxeCAzNUdGFUgwE1YLTe6rDk73j-XH-_ppWp6=OA@mail.gmail.com>

OP, here.

FWIW, this enhancement request (or bug report)
did not ask for the doc string to be filled.  It
asked for it to be moved to its own line.  Those
are not at all the same thing.

A doc string should be under the control of its
author.  It should already follow the conventions
for doc string line length.  The doc string line
length is NOT the problem.

The OP report says this:

  We go to great trouble to ensure that doc
  string text width is reasonable, but Customize
  currently defeats that effort by simply
  appending the doc string to existing text and
  buttons in the buffer.

Please respect that motivation.  Authors go to
great trouble to format doc strings.  Please do
not override that willy nilly by filling the
doc they've gone to some trouble to format.

If you want to add an _option_ to _also_ fill the
doc string, that's a different enhancement request,
not this one.

That should in any case be independent.  If a user
wants doc strings to be blindly filled systematically
that's her right, so I'm not against adding such an
option.

But that's not a fulfillment of _this_ enhancement
request (or bug fix).  What's needed for this report
is to move the doc string to its own line.  Can that
please be done, or at least considered?

And if you _also_ want to consider filling the doc
string (that should be a separate enhancement
request), please do _not_ do so systematically.  Let
users choose to do that (opt in), with a user option.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-21 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-29 16:29 bug#6755: 24.0.50; Customize buffer is too wide. Put doc string on separate line Drew Adams
2011-07-03 13:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-03 14:13   ` Drew Adams
2011-07-03 14:51     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-03 15:12       ` Drew Adams
2011-07-03 15:19       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-04  4:48         ` Drew Adams
2011-07-04 12:24           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-04 16:21             ` Drew Adams
2011-07-05 13:36               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-03 15:25       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-16 14:54 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-16 20:10   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-17 12:04     ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-18 13:26       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-21 10:53         ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-21 14:44           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-09-21 17:04             ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-21 22:36               ` Drew Adams
2019-09-22 14:55                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 17:24                   ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-22 19:11                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 12:30           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2019-09-22 16:09                 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-22 16:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-23 10:10                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] <<<CABczVwc9RpGvxYMTX8iSvhFqJ2eBZLvHvaWsZ4n2FZfYh_KZvg@mail.gmail.com>
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2019-09-22 22:56                     ` Drew Adams

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