Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
>
>> I expect you could argue it both ways.
>>
>> `checkdoc' says its purpose is to "check the entire buffer for style
>> errors", but IMO the \\=' issue is more a "bug" than a "style error"
>> (as it will typically be about documented lisp code).
>>
>> I do think such bugs are far more likely to be addressed if they're
>> produced by the byte-compiler, so to me it doesn't seem like a bad
>> thing unless it's prone to false-positives (in which case compilation
>> warnings would be pretty frustrating).
>
> checkdoc was eventually supposed to be integrated into the
> byte-compiler, I think.  Errors in doc strings are not fatal to the
> program either, so I'd call them "style errors".

Checkdoc is nice, but it would be too much work to fix such warnings
with checkdoc one buffer after the other (48 buffers), I had to use a
function that do it all at once without asking.

-- 
Thierry