From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48768: Introducing ability to append to docstring Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18044"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48768@debbugs.gnu.org To: ludvig-faddeev@gmx.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 01 06:54:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPp-0004Tj-7V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:54:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37622 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPn-0008EH-VE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPh-0008E2-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPh-0002g6-Lr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPh-0004RS-K3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:54:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:54:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 48768 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 48768-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B48768.162252323317058 (code B ref 48768); Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 48768) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jun 2021 04:53:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35435 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPZ-0004R4-DP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53418) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPW-0004Qp-NH for 48768@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPR-0002Rh-Ae; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lnwPQ-0002Bd-VR; Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ludvig-faddeev@gmx.com) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:207741 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > A useful capability would allow one to append to a defun docstring using a defvar. > User could write a brief description for the docstring, and later append more details > from a defvar. Could you show an example of what this would look like, in use? I'm trying to guess -- though I don't have confidence in my guess -- and I think this might be a useful feature but would be easier to use with a different interface. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)