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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
       [not found] <E1W1bSL-0003KG-4g@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
@ 2014-01-10 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-10 16:22   ` Bozhidar Batsov
  2014-01-10 16:26   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-01-10 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld, emacs-devel

>   Document `subr-x' functions.

Please don't.  The Elisp manual is already very large, we don't want to
document everything in it.


        Stefan



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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 15:22 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions Stefan Monnier
@ 2014-01-10 16:22   ` Bozhidar Batsov
  2014-01-10 17:24     ` Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-10 16:26   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Bozhidar Batsov @ 2014-01-10 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: Rüdiger Sonderfeld, emacs-devel

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There should be some guidelines about what needs documenting and what
doesn't. Personally, I feel that hash and string related functions are
worth documenting, as many people are likely learning Elisp by reading the
Elisp manual.


On 10 January 2014 17:22, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> >   Document `subr-x' functions.
>
> Please don't.  The Elisp manual is already very large, we don't want to
> document everything in it.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 15:22 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-10 16:22   ` Bozhidar Batsov
@ 2014-01-10 16:26   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
  2014-01-10 17:22     ` Stefan Monnier
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld @ 2014-01-10 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Stefan Monnier

On Friday 10 January 2014 10:22:51 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >   Document `subr-x' functions.
> 
> Please don't.  The Elisp manual is already very large, we don't want to
> document everything in it.

They weren't marked "---" in NEWS and the hash-table functions were already 
documented.  Right now `subr-x' is too small to deserve a separate manual.  
Maybe not every function should be documented but there should be at least a 
hint in the manual to make it more discoverable.

Shall I revert the patch?

Regards,
Rüdiger




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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 16:26   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
@ 2014-01-10 17:22     ` Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-10 17:58       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-01-10 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld; +Cc: emacs-devel

> Shall I revert the patch?

I think so, yes.  And add the missing "---".  Thanks,


        Stefan



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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 16:22   ` Bozhidar Batsov
@ 2014-01-10 17:24     ` Stefan Monnier
  2014-01-10 17:40       ` Bozhidar Batsov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-01-10 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bozhidar Batsov; +Cc: Rüdiger Sonderfeld, emacs-devel

> There should be some guidelines about what needs documenting and what
> doesn't.  Personally, I feel that hash and string related functions are
> worth documenting, as many people are likely learning Elisp by reading the
> Elisp manual.

subr-x functions are functions which haven't yet proved useful enough to
deserve to be in subr.el, so for the same reason I don't think they
belong in the Lispref either.


        Stefan



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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 17:24     ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2014-01-10 17:40       ` Bozhidar Batsov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Bozhidar Batsov @ 2014-01-10 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: Rüdiger Sonderfeld, emacs-devel

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Fair enough.


On 10 January 2014 19:24, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > There should be some guidelines about what needs documenting and what
> > doesn't.  Personally, I feel that hash and string related functions are
> > worth documenting, as many people are likely learning Elisp by reading
> the
> > Elisp manual.
>
> subr-x functions are functions which haven't yet proved useful enough to
> deserve to be in subr.el, so for the same reason I don't think they
> belong in the Lispref either.
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115961: Document `subr-x' functions.
  2014-01-10 17:22     ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2014-01-10 17:58       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld @ 2014-01-10 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Stefan Monnier

On Friday 10 January 2014 12:22:03 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Shall I revert the patch?
> 
> I think so, yes.  And add the missing "---".  Thanks,

Done in r115964.

Regards,
Rüdiger




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