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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.

  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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