From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
c4droid@foxmail.com
Subject: Re: Some ideas with Emacs
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:14:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgm6o2y1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878snyxx5d.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 29 Nov 2019 21:09:18 +0100)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefan@marxist.se, c4droid@foxmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 21:09:18 +0100
>
> >> Personally, I don't like docstring to be too verbose. Usually, when a
> >> function is documented with both docstrings and a manual, I prefer to
> >> put the examples in the manual.
> >
> > I agree: the examples should be mostly in the manual. Doc strings
> > should only have examples if it is otherwise very hard to explain
> > something.
>
> Shall we say something like this in "(elisp) Documentation Tips"?
Not sure I understand what would you like to say there.
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2019-11-29 9:05 Some ideas with Emacs Anonymous
2019-11-29 11:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-11-29 11:44 ` =?gb18030?B?QW5vbnltb3Vz?=
2019-11-30 5:54 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-30 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 5:57 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-01 10:56 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-01 11:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-01 13:40 ` VanL
2019-12-01 14:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-02 4:52 ` VanL
2019-12-02 6:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-03 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-03 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 16:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-03 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-03 19:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-03 19:32 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-03 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 23:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-04 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 18:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-04 8:39 ` VanL
2019-12-03 23:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-05 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-06 6:51 ` VanL
2019-12-06 20:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-06 23:58 ` VanL
2019-12-02 5:41 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-02 12:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-02 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-02 20:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-02 21:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-02 22:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-02 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-02 23:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-03 0:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-03 23:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-03 8:37 ` VanL
2019-12-03 10:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-03 11:14 ` VanL
2019-12-05 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-05 7:30 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-12-06 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-07 2:21 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-12-08 5:06 ` Librepay Richard Stallman
2019-12-08 12:10 ` Librepay VanL
2019-12-03 5:03 ` Some ideas with Emacs Richard Stallman
2019-12-03 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-04 0:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-05 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-11 19:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-06-03 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-29 11:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-29 11:59 ` Anonymous
2019-11-29 12:31 ` Emacs: the Editor for the Next Forty Years (was Re: Some ideas with Emacs) Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-29 13:22 ` Some ideas with Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 13:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-29 13:56 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-11-29 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 14:26 ` Anonymous
2019-11-30 3:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-12-01 3:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-29 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 18:58 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-29 19:13 ` Adding examples in the doc (was: Some ideas with Emacs) Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 19:30 ` Yuan Fu
2019-11-29 20:03 ` Adding examples in the doc Michael Albinus
2019-11-29 19:32 ` Some ideas with Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 20:09 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-29 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-29 20:25 ` Michael Albinus
2019-11-29 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-01 6:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 7:35 ` Eduardo Ochs
2019-12-01 10:21 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-01 6:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-11-29 21:42 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-11-30 0:12 ` João Távora
2019-12-01 6:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 0:44 ` Yuan Fu
2019-11-30 4:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-30 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-01 6:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-01 18:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 19:44 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-12-01 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-01 21:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-02 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-02 4:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-02 4:48 ` Yuan Fu
2019-12-02 4:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-02 15:57 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-01 22:20 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2019-12-01 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 6:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 3:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 6:04 ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-01 6:15 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-29 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 16:04 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-30 11:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-01 2:41 ` VanL
2019-12-01 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-01 18:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Emacs development discussions.
2019-12-03 6:07 ` Ag Ibragimov
2019-12-06 18:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-06 19:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-06 20:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-06 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-06 21:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-07 2:13 ` Ag Ibragimov
2019-12-07 3:14 ` Drew Adams
2019-12-10 20:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-11 4:21 ` VanL
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