From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: gnus-group.el docstrings start with a *
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:50:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-K4uVdyOoZf7PienTe+14p0WE48tJYDr2QyJPc8tBUd9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaf8py82.fsf@gmx.net>
2015-11-05 9:55 GMT+00:00 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 23:54:40 +0000 Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> See, for instance,
>>
>> (defcustom gnus-no-groups-message "No news is good news"
>> "*Message displayed by Gnus when no groups are available."
>> :group 'gnus-start
>> :type 'string)
>>
>> Most docstrings in this file are like this.
>>
>> Is there a reason for this?
>
> It's an obsolete convention for user options; cf. NEWS.24:
>
> * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.3
>
> ** Docstrings starting with `*' no longer indicate user options. [...]
Thanks Stephen.
So it's ok if I change it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-04 23:54 gnus-group.el docstrings start with a * Artur Malabarba
2015-11-05 9:55 ` Stephen Berman
2015-11-05 10:50 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-11-05 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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