From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: DOC for Mac OS shown for Emacs compiled for X.
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:43:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3474411E-2A9B-11D9-831A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17jp8npa8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
>
> My take on this is that if the documentation is very different for each
> system, then either the function's functionality is ill-defined or the
> docstring gives too much precision.
This is probably correct. But most functions have been defined on X
for Unix and then kind of adopted for the other platforms, sometimes
with a bad fit.
>
>> And if the real function is in another file the benefit of clicking
>> on "C
>> source code" is reduced.
>
> Good point. Richard's suggestion to tweak the link-following code
> so as to look for macfoo.c (or w32foo.c) is a better idea.
There is also one defun (x-selection-exists-p) that is in mac.c instead
of xselect.c (there is no macselect.c) that will be wrong. I already
have a modified help-fns.el (6 lines added) that can handle this my
way, but I guess it is not important.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-27 9:09 DOC for Mac OS shown for Emacs compiled for X Jan D.
2004-10-27 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-28 7:26 ` Jan D.
2004-10-28 9:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-28 13:16 ` Jan D.
2004-10-28 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-28 19:56 ` Stefan
2004-10-29 8:00 ` Jan D.
2004-10-29 20:37 ` Stefan
2004-10-29 21:16 ` Jan D.
2004-10-29 21:48 ` Stefan
2004-10-30 5:43 ` Jan D.
2004-10-30 16:32 ` Stefan
2004-10-30 17:43 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-30 21:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-30 14:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-30 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-30 14:39 ` Jan D.
2004-11-01 7:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-01 8:47 ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-28 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
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