From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sync docs between X, W32, NS Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83aalx713c.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288369525 24777 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2010 16:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 18:25:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBrlW-0006VV-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBrlW-00059r-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51057 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBrkx-0004om-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBrkw-0007qo-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBrkw-0007qi-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBrkv-0001zM-FM; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:41 -0400 X-Spook: monarchist Freeh SWAT wire transfer S Key rail gun CDMA X-Ran: Wj511*T>obQ{u/UN{*dAC4$jgA\,(3Uiyc0UNI;Gb='qbkeiJAR-_Tj|cmcye]=.uBEJ%} X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83aalx713c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 29 Oct 2010 12\:19\:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132172 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have only one implementation of > these functions, with most of their bodies in separate functions that > live in platform-specific files. Then the doc string would be in only > one place, which I think will deliver us from the need to go through > this pain in the future. Absolutely something like that would be better. (The doc-strings will still need to be unified, so the current changes are a small step in the right direction.)