From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:49:28 +0000 Message-ID: References: <878ro74pz5.fsf@rfc20.org> Reply-To: uzibalqa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27345"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 56870@debbugs.gnu.org To: Matt Armstrong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 23:51:26 2022 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 1oIdJt-0006v1-VL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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This could be a function name, variable, or > > some other symbol. This is part of the project's conventions, described > > here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation= -Tips.html > > > > b) When lisp level interfaces expect strings they generally say so, and > > the examples use quotes like "this". > > > > c) A bare all (without any quotes at all), is just a word, and not > > a Lisp level function or variable. > > > > Hope that helps! > > > It is a shame that documentation does not come with example. It is what i= s much lacking. Am also having difficulty showing documentation for company-dabbrev-* and c= ompany-dabbrev-code-* using `C-h v'.