From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making `eglot-server-programs' a custom variable? Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:08:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6z6rb49.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86fservpri.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8nnqchr.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfiqrg5g.fsf@gnu.org> <874jv6akg7.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36701"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: arash@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 10 18:08:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1otB2k-0009L2-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:08:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otB28-00046p-J8; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otB27-00046e-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otB26-00040n-JG; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:08:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=s75NQL0Fl/JJ+SB7dexYJnwfgRovdyZsBUxy+EF14bk=; b=DrWzMykULHAQrpeBTECd PFAAtSWxUoZ3hm5Sp1BdnFO6ewVuZBp3iqNXmAl93v9pwf7d945dl68HQM0ChxmvvCAMS9fkRHs5G oBOtPm5JIcMUMQeKCUGbKdLB0tgakGYC6807tG7WhuOr4QggkSQjC9fW328NNtQsPmt9x2SrJDpSs oRPsvSR5pcBcpTL+0iI9UAAwzz+JKjFxg6OfECdPAdMWTYI8mSIOReeBI7P7nifBRmv+gidq5brkg 69BSlQ9I44im2bTnvUnMRERj+WSrfcttTohb4K9lOMBHi7q1U9vGeYhWelpMK47BEi7k+gjW7bGZf +tzlvkBGUKToCg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otB25-0005CK-RR; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:08:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874jv6akg7.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28g?= =?utf-8?B?VMOhdm9yYQ==?= on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:38:32 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-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:299499 Archived-At: > From: João Távora > Cc: arash@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:38:32 +0000 > > >> A good docstring (can it be improved?) containing good descriptions > >> and some ready-made recipes is the current and best approach to these > >> things. > > > > Sorry, but I disagree. No doc string can reasonably teach users > > advanced Lisp. That's a non-starter. > > Funny, that's how I learned all my Elisp until I learned of the Elisp > manual a few years ago. And this is not "advanced" stuff at all. This > is all that's needed: We are miscommunicating: I thought you were suggesting to explain the structure of eglot-server-programs's data structure and the methods of augmenting it in the doc string. (You could have guessed that I didn't mean such a simple addition to a doc string, the moment you wrote the "funny" and the "advanced" parts of your reply. You know me well enough for that.)