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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 09:09:27 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1706060901460.2311@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9B4FFDA-34F4-45DA-A37E-C431A1E55310@gmail.com>



On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> I was thinking (naively?) that having the docstrings on one side and the reference on the other side was not a very efficient way to maintain documentation. Is everything in the documentation actually written by hand based on the docstrings? Wouldn't it be nicer to have good docstrings and use them directly in the documentation to avoid duplication of work? Is there any reason I'm not seeing why this is not happening?
Hi,

you might wish to read the following thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00452.html



  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-06  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-05 21:26 docstrings and elisp reference Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06  0:09 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2017-06-06  5:10   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06 15:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:25       ` Stephen Leake
2017-06-06 20:36         ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08  2:29           ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08  3:48             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08  5:39               ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08  8:12                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08 15:11                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 15:42                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09  0:25                       ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08 18:29               ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09  4:10               ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-08 15:18             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 18:10               ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 19:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 20:07                   ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 20:22                   ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 22:44                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09  4:10             ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-09  5:20               ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09  7:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09  8:27                   ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09  9:38                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:32                         ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09 13:46                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 19:24                             ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-10  1:06                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-10 11:36                                 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-06-10 14:26                                   ` Drew Adams
2017-06-10  3:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10  7:31                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11  2:43                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-11  2:44                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-11 15:18                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12  2:52                         ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-12  3:27                           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-13  3:25                             ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10  8:22                   ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-10  3:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 20:45         ` Joost Kremers
2017-06-07 13:03           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 13:23             ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-07 13:31               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 14:18             ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 15:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:47         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-06 21:21           ` Drew Adams
2017-06-06 21:50             ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07  5:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 12:46                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 13:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-17 13:55                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 20:14                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-18  2:32                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 19:52                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-17 22:13                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-20 18:05                     ` John Wiegley
2017-06-17 14:10                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 15:13                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:59                     ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-17 14:52                   ` Drew Adams
2017-06-19 18:31                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-06-07 14:05               ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 14:27                 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08  1:27           ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:42 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:49   ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07  5:20     ` Eli Zaretskii

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