From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making DOC argument of define-minor-mode optional
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:59:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgwaxk3z.fsf@petton.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eg226vr5.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> the docstring created by define-minor-mode with nil DOC is useful and often better than what users write.
>> Should DOC therefore be optional?
>
> Not sure we would like to educate Lisp programmers to stop thinking
> about good doc strings.
I agree.
Nico
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 10:04 Making DOC argument of define-minor-mode optional Philipp Stephani
2016-11-23 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-23 15:59 ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2016-11-23 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-27 21:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-28 17:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-29 0:44 ` Drew Adams
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