From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DOC for Mac OS shown for Emacs compiled for X. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:43:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3474411E-2A9B-11D9-831A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> References: <20041029080140.SPWE44.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain> <90659DCD-2A36-11D9-9E5D-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099158267 11978 80.91.229.6 (30 Oct 2004 17:44:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 30 19:44:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNxGt-00071T-00 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:44:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNxOn-0003Kl-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNxOe-0003Kf-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNxOe-0003KS-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNxOe-0003KP-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CNxGV-0001Qc-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.220] [83.226.180.220]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041030174346.JSEO4883.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:43:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Stefan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29182 > > 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.