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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12686@debbugs.gnu.org, "'Aaron S. Hawley'" <aaron.s.hawley@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:02:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfw556s2p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B4E0159D95BD43B9922FFF4F914F691E@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:15:05 -0700")

> In that case, we use button type `help-symbol', which DTRT: it shows the help
> for both the function and the variable.

What I meant is that for minor-modes we shouldn't show the help for the
function plus the help for the variable but a single help for the
minor-mode which describes both as a single entity.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 20:58 bug#12686: PATCH: ambiguous help doc strings Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-23  8:04 ` Juri Linkov
2012-10-23 12:32   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-23 16:15     ` Drew Adams
2012-10-23 17:02       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-25 18:29         ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 19:21           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 20:13             ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 20:44               ` Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-25 21:01                 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 21:11                   ` Aaron S. Hawley
2012-10-25 21:13                     ` Drew Adams
2012-10-26  1:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-11 18:19                     ` Aaron S. Hawley
2013-01-11 23:09                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-23 15:24   ` Aaron S. Hawley

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