From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd36ui4xq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p0bome9xik.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:19 -0400")
> However, hasn't some information been lost in the process?
Yup. It should only have been applied to defcustoms.
> Shouldn't it (and other defvars with *s) have been converted to defcustoms?
They should be converted to defcustoms, indeed, and only after that can
the * be removed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 18:08 Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings Glenn Morris
2012-04-26 18:46 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-26 18:51 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-26 19:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-26 20:48 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 20:51 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-26 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-26 20:54 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-26 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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