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Subject: Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  larsi@gnus.org,  asjo@koldfront.dk,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:21:42 -0400
> 
> > IMO, examples are for the manual, not for the doc strings.  If some
> > parts of our manuals could benefit from more examples, patches for
> > that would be welcome.
> 
> I think displaying the examples we have in shortdoc.el in the
> *Help* buffer would make a lot of sense.

Trivial examples bloat the session memory without any significant
effect on documentation quality.  People who must have examples should
really read the manual, IMO.