From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> <83a72qs4z2.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo5uqoh5.fsf@gnu.org> <838si9qf7s.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnblov3t.fsf@gnu.org> <6C836138-819D-4D1C-982C-72F49867997E@traduction-libre.org> <83bln3ojit.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="10218"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, joaotavora@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:53:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniF-0002Yv-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:53:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48878 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniE-00023z-9a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngj-0000Ss-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngi-0003bS-Sj; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngh-00061L-Nl; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83bln3ojit.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 04 May 2020 17:35:22 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248932 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. ]]] > > Considering that docstrings describe more functions than the > > manual does, would you think that working on the dosctrings for > > what you describe above would be better to expose emacs' APIs ? > The doc strings cannot be used for this purpose, because they lack the > information about the groups to which each function belongs. Don't worry about what information Emacs does or doesn't have. For providing better help, we can add whatever classification data is useful for that. Adding that data is just some work -- it is not an incompatibility. People who like some new help interface will add the data it needs to work. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)