From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:25:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7acc7d4f-23cc-4b6a-b062-ef92805e465b@default> <878tl3rz38.fsf@x230.lts> <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497324383 10492 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 03:26:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 05:26:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcTA-0002Hr-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:26:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcTF-0004NG-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcSR-0004N0-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcSQ-0000Lm-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcSM-0000HZ-Gf; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dKcSM-0002Kk-1a; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:25:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 11 Jun 2017 23:27:39 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215599 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > C-h v will say that it's obsolete and point to the new name which > indicates clearly it's a hook. Maybe that is good enough. I am not sure. Someone praised Javadoc for indicating that sort of thing in a mechanical way. If we need that, we could implement it based on the data that C-h v looks at, but C-h v itself won't do the job. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.