From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tino Calancha Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Doc strings starting with a line break Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:18:06 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474197604 6148 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 11:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:20:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) Cc: Emacs developers , Tino Calancha To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 13:20:00 2016 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 1bla8a-0000Ue-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:19:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bla8Y-0005BB-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 07:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bla7w-0005As-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 07:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bla7q-0007Y6-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 07:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:33601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bla7q-0007Xs-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 07:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id hm5so7248454pac.0 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:19:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:mime-version; bh=Y4sq1UsleFChIPIxxmTuqR/VC5Cdnb539ZgABXFGXkM=; b=dNMhBzBP1FDWgj3Utsps7V1t2Vbg6No3y6mfZpJblmvkVvSc/rCZGQ7pBRqti29to9 UHMn6TlnmQAVJ9aGFj4eO4wEAvWUexzBsnGIRnJakPyjAknGjLH5SrrlPCOXMxwHgcTD 575QxsmvveJhpNy+9NRQo6iIMLTPojCkDPUZPgwLlQUgFPaei6WbGC35t7mlG1/0ROOq k9tV+Hc9l7OpXa6gEQQeP92ChxaEP3BOvtGiYfYuwxd8RvZ83p8Y8sHe5I0eiJsfubCS mlWfc/J8f49lItQlWRuU2OGs0Moscl4+1tGt7fX0gJ3JQvS+qcZZz4Ot37FTjdOhT8zf k9Ww== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:user-agent:mime-version; bh=Y4sq1UsleFChIPIxxmTuqR/VC5Cdnb539ZgABXFGXkM=; b=J2o2s0djlEoJKXcEXWG0i/bf1UOBfsWcJTNDSoJmTCtNCy06bPHbFFKrT1zuvnG94+ 5YD0wdj3FOKTR0+1+6ip3RkfYUwSNgjzdxmkoZKyK09B1Lf9XwQBwstkSmeSxOY82Fbw NrJ7bI5Be13hwoK9u72F7CLRD03mzAr8chkzySirpf4gEZodcNNSmw0dBc1lOPtDAr43 qweKpUpHILMUcyBo71odkg+HoNkZ1RjHd5m5Q4cDv+aLn9TQBAtA5iymB3W1nGCLL3kP PPKmPS32AHwNgsG5Z3sz0KlQvjdZa2AE5Lyvww3JO3MNv9Y6cvzfDj2vrAAuQNTcxgXJ 937A== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwPku3cqZPquXVcW7oaaS1VDO6hrsBQzr7DG6ntOeTckT4EIdAOQwPrKxjHkMMYoXA== X-Received: by 10.66.17.137 with SMTP id o9mr38131694pad.48.1474197489420; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from calancha-pc (57.92.100.220.dy.bbexcite.jp. [220.100.92.57]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f16sm59877808pfd.84.2016.09.18.04.18.07 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:18:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: Tino Calancha X-X-Sender: calancha@calancha-pc In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.220.49 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:207539 Archived-At: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Richard Copley wrote: > On 18 September 2016 at 11:51, Tino Calancha wrote: >> i am wondering what could be the reason for some doc strings >> starting with a break line. >> For instance, see `isearch-forward' or `looking-at-p'. > > The newline is escaped so it's not part of the docstring. For > `looking-at-p' it allows the following line of code to fit into 80 > characters. I guess would fit without that trick: i count 77 characters. > For `isearch-forward' it seems unnecessary but it > has been that way for 24 years. They do things differently > there :) I see. Indeed, it's being a long time. I will accept these strings as a cargo cult.