From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Fill paragraph in doc string and \\{somekeymap} Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:22:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <472E6EB2.8050002@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194225836 14888 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2007 01:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 01:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 05 02:23:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ioqh0-0000ue-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:23:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ioqgp-0000G9-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ioqgl-0000FF-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ioqgk-0000E7-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ioqgk-0000E4-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ioqgj-0004ss-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id lA51NYlj026873; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:23:34 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lA51NXX7023383; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:23:33 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-151.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3342623521194225733; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:22:13 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <472E6EB2.8050002@gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82529 Archived-At: > >> Would it not be nice if \\[keymap] and \\{keymap} behaved as paragraph > >> breaks in doc strings? > > > > No, certainly not. I cannot imagine why that would be imposed. > They should > > have no effect on formatting (beyond what they do now). > > > > There are other ways to insert a paragraph break. If you want a > > syntax-independent way to do that in a doc string, that might be a > > reasonable request, but, please, let's not combine paragraph syntax with > > \\[...],\\{...}, or \\<...>. > > I was mostly thinking of filling. Filling too should be separate from \\[...] etc. In my own uses of these, for instance, I don't think there is one occurrence where I want to fill the text of the current paragraph. Why assume that there is a connection between these two things?