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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312604 Archived-At: From: Richard Stallman Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 22:13:51 -0500 Those functions certainly should have doc strings, and adding some is a good thing to do. Naturally. But that will not cure the larger problem caused by too much usage of those functions. They were meant to be used in a few obsure corners, not used so often that maintainers need to know about them. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) I know Emacs has many obscure corners. But I didn't think that any were beyond the reach of the maintainers. ;-} -- Bob