From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'martin rudalics' <rudalics@gmx.at>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:33:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc6wf7u2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> A more general formatting problem is that the Lisp values might be
> quite long.
Maybe. This is possibly a YAGNI, though. What I'm thinking is that
normally long values will either be indirect (eg, the value of
variable whose name can be used instead of the value), or they will be
compounds in which case a compound widget will be used so that the
components can be changed.
Even if there are a small number, the "indirection through variable"
workaround might be more appropriate (DRY: you can use C-h v on the
variable name and get its value and docstring easily) and easier to
implement than more general formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 5:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30 6:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-10-29 6:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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