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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Peter Dean <laszlomail@protonmail.com>, 46702@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:09:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfbda1ms.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83blcavlzp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:31:54 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That would work in simple cases, such as this one, but we also have
> variables whose value takes a lot of space when printed, and in those
> cases we have
>
>   Documentation:
>   <the doc string>
>
>   Value:
>   <representation of the value>
>
> E.g., try "C-h v char-script-table RET".

Even there, I think removing the "Documentation:" line makes sense --
the "Value:" line clearly demarcates the documentation from the value.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-24 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22  6:05 bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-22  8:26   ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22  8:38     ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 15:55   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 21:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 21:52       ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-22 21:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 22:08           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23  3:28         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-23  7:09           ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-23 15:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:09               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-02-24 16:29                 ` Peter Dean via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-02-24 16:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-24 16:59                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-24 17:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-25 15:15                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-25 15:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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