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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: (fn ...) - please fill it at the point of generation
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:53:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACOEBBCGAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J8c6B-00036d-WA@fencepost.gnu.org>

>     I would like the filling to be done at the point where the (fn...) is
>     generated, not just when it is displayed by `C-h f'.
>
> It is better, more general, the way it is.

How is it more general? Why is it better?

What's the advantage of having one line in a doc string that doesn't fit the
doc-string pattern (convention)? How is that more general and less of a
special case?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 21:38 (fn ...) - please fill it at the point of generation Drew Adams
2007-12-29  2:37 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-29  3:23   ` Drew Adams
2007-12-29 13:32     ` Miles Bader
2007-12-29 15:53       ` Drew Adams
2007-12-29 17:26         ` Miles Bader
2007-12-29 18:15           ` Drew Adams
2007-12-29 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 15:53   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-12-29 17:08     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-29 18:14       ` Drew Adams
2007-12-29 23:05         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-30  0:04           ` Drew Adams
2007-12-30  1:59             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-30  1:36     ` Richard Stallman

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