>>> AFACT, currently we have some examples in the Elisp manual and very >>> few examples in docstrings. >>> It might be a good idea to encourage the addition of examples either in >>> docstrings or in the Elisp manual (or both). >> Personally, I don't like docstring to be too verbose. > > I tend to agree. Of course part of it is that a verbose docstring is an > indication that the function is complex to use, but there's also simply > the impact on the visual distance between the function header and the code. FYI there is a package that does similar things: https://github.com/xuchunyang/elisp-demos Yuan