From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Undocumented hyperlinks in doc strings. Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:47:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310090050.h990oIa15681@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310100327.h9A3REl20310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310150138.h9F1cWg10456@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310170332.h9H3WSC25439@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310190114.h9J1EdL03115@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200310200224.h9K2O8505226@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066748731 12393 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 15:05:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 17:05:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABy4f-0001h8-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABy4e-0003ea-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABy2C-0002c6-0M for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABxxd-0001l4-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABxs7-0000bO-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABxrL-0000FP-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ABxnF-0000GM-8I; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:47:29 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 20 Oct 2003 10:44:16 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17295 The only way I can think of that won't make newcomment.el's code even more complex (and significantly more ugly) is to accept expressions (rather than just numbers) for comment-add. Using user-specified expressions is ugly, and we would have to mark the variable risky, which is undesirable for an existing option that was not risky before. It would be better to add a new variable comment-add-function and use that, if non-nil, rather than comment-add.