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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: proposed new variable `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column'
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 10:07:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18pV3b-0004Yl-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303012056.h21KuFt24965@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)

    Why can't they set fill-column in their emacs-lisp-mode-hook ?
    It looks to me like an unnecessary customization variable.

This feature is good to enable by default.
It is better to implement it directly, not thru a hook.

    I don't like this change because docstrings shouldn't be
    limted to 65 chars.

This won't limit them, it will just normally fill them to 65 chars.
Longer lines than that are not a good idea except in special
circumstances, and in those special circumstances, you can simply
avoid filling.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-02 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-28  1:59 proposed new variable `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column' Matt Swift
2003-03-01  2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-01  4:05   ` Matt Swift
2003-03-01 20:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-01 20:54       ` Matt Swift
2003-03-01 20:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-01 21:32           ` Matt Swift
2003-03-02 15:07           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-03-02 15:07     ` Richard Stallman

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