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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljmi9fkm.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws63gkzh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:25:38 -0400")

> I think, as a temporary solution, we should make the docstrings of all
> the affected functions and variables the same.  If necessary, they can
> say somehthing like, "On Windows, this does X.  On Nexstep, this does
> Y", and so on.

That sounds OK as a quick temporary solution.  The longer-term solution
is to say that such variables defined in various places are bugs.
I.e. the definition should be moved to a common file.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 20:25 bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation Chong Yidong
2009-07-21  3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-21 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-07-21 18:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-22 18:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-22 18:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-23  2:43         ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-20 21:33 bug#3888: " Chong Yidong
2009-07-21 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <83k51y3up4.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-07-20 18:21 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-20 18:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-24 16:40   ` bug#3888: marked as done (Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-07-24 17:41     ` bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation Glenn Morris

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