Re: Please fix source of unfixable docstring length warnings

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

I am running emacs built against the latest HEAD, and the error
message in my email was from last evening, so I guess it's not
entirely fixed.

Stefan Kangas writes:
 > "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
 > 
 > > As an example,
 > > emacspeak-table-ui.el:57:45: Warning: docstring wider than 80
 > > characters
 > > reported on
 > > https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/blob/master/lisp/emacspeak-table-ui.el#start-of-content
 > >
 > > These warnings are unfixable since the source code doesn't actually
 > > have the problem reported, it appears to happen for things like calls
 > > to define-derived-mode and similar things and the noise from these
 > > spurious warnings means that real warnings will get ignored over time.
 > 
 > I can't reproduce this, as the below patch makes the warning go away
 > here:
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Does that patch fix the problem for you too?
 > 
 > I've fixed several warnings for overly long docstrings in automatically
 > generated strings.  If any remain, I would definitely like to find them
 > and fix them, so I appreciate your help in getting to the root of this.
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > BTW, if you find these warnings too much of a hassle, you could consider
 > disabling them with a directory local variable; I believe you would need
 > to set `byte-compile-warnings' to e.g. `(not docstrings)'.
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > diff --git a/lisp/emacspeak-table-ui.el b/lisp/emacspeak-table-ui.el
 > index 2c1465e0f..0b60769fa 100644
 > --- a/lisp/emacspeak-table-ui.el
 > +++ b/lisp/emacspeak-table-ui.el
 > @@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ T               emacspeak-table-goto-top
 >  
 >  The next two commands let you search the table.
 >  The commands ask you if you want to search rows or columns.
 > -When searching headers remember that row 0 is the column header, and that column 0 is the row header.
 > +When searching headers remember that row 0 is the column header,
 > +and that column 0 is the row header.
 >  
 >  h               emacspeak-table-search-headers
 >  s               emacspeak-table-search

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1  🦮