From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: John Paul Wallington <jpw@shootybangbang.com>,
monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable'
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:25:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207121525.g6CFPXc07608@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020712121334.2E82.LEKTU@terra.es
> It's not very helpful to mention the aliased variable in the alias
> description without the documentation, because that forces the user to
> do another describe-variable. And `defvaralias' does not allow
> introducing any new documentation for the alias, so there's no
> posibility of conflict.
I think that defvaralias should be extended to allow a docstring
(like I just did for defalias) and that the documentation should
be taken either from this docstring or (if there isn't any) from
the alias (as is done for functions).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-12 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 9:42 mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' John Paul Wallington
2002-07-11 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 0:30 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 10:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-07-15 15:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-16 11:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-17 8:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 13:06 ` arglist in docstring (was: mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' ) Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 13:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-17 15:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-18 14:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-18 15:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-18 21:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-19 6:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 7:18 ` mentioning variable aliases in `describe-variable' Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 7:55 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 8:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 8:47 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-07-12 10:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-12 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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