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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Help: Display Relevant Bits First?
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 17:36:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qyf4knk.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czhzlhbz.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 02 Apr 2022 15:56:16 +0200")

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-04-02 15:56 +0200] wrote:

> "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>> At present, if you do describe-function on any command that toggles a
>> mode, you get a lot of common boiler-plate, with the salient bits
>> about that particular function at the end -- could we reverse this?
>
> I agree completely, especially as the boilerplate has expanded over the
> years.  I've now moved it to the end of the doc strings in Emacs 29.

Thanks, but the changes in easy-mmode.el don't bootstrap, maybe because
they rely on subr-x.el definitions that are autoloaded only after some
of easy-mmode.el's clients, such as files.el, are loaded in loadup.el.

-- 
Basil



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-02 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-31 20:22 Feature Request: Help: Display Relevant Bits First? T.V Raman
2022-03-31 20:50 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-31 21:01   ` T.V Raman
2022-04-02 13:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-02 14:36   ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2022-04-02 14:53     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-02 17:13   ` T.V Raman
2022-04-03 11:54     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-03  0:37   ` Po Lu

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