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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 35651@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35651: 26.2; doc of `delimit-columns-*' commands
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 04:51:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o923ex9a.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d6bde7f-5f5e-445d-a7d7-85e068acd48e@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 9 May 2019 08:11:20 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> The doc strings are woefully inadequate.  "Prettify all columns..."  is
> unclear.  The behavior - what the commands do - is not described at all.
>
> And there is nothing in any manual about these commands either.  Users
> are forced to consult the code to have any idea of what this "delimit
> columns" stuff is all about.

That was a pretty minimal doc string.  I've now adapted some of the text
from the comments in the file as a doc string.

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09  2:51 UTC|newest]

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2019-05-09 15:11 bug#35651: 26.2; doc of `delimit-columns-*' commands Drew Adams
2019-07-09  2:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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