From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
"Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmicLcDDadb7kdsMuJijgRygeud70Dzdxnbfm6iQ9mTGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl74ry2z.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Yeah, perhaps that'd be nice? Something like:
>
> (car '(a b c)) => a
> (car '(1 . 2)) => 1
> (car nil) => nil
> Also see `cdr'.
I like it.
In general, I think we should include more examples in our
documentation. shortdoc.el is a step forward here, and it would be
even better if you could see those examples when you pull up the
docstring of a function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-15 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-14 15:05 Add hints to documentation of car and cdr for (e)lisp newcomers - take 2 Adam Sjøgren
2021-07-14 15:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-07-14 15:48 ` tomas
2021-07-14 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-14 16:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 4:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 23:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-15 4:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 11:39 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-07-15 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 15:02 ` Tim Cross
2021-07-15 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-15 15:26 ` Yuan Fu
2021-07-15 15:52 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-07-15 15:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-16 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-16 2:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-16 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-16 14:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-07-16 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 16:17 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-15 16:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 20:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-07-15 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 16:37 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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