From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DOC for Mac OS shown for Emacs compiled for X. Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:32:49 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20041029080140.SPWE44.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain> <90659DCD-2A36-11D9-9E5D-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099154002 2143 80.91.229.6 (30 Oct 2004 16:33:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 30 18:33:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNwA9-0003do-00 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:33:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNwI3-0007QN-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNwHw-0007Q5-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNwHv-0007PT-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNwHv-0007PQ-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:41:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.164] (helo=simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CNw9r-0008Js-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([67.71.25.5]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041030163250.NNSZ1635.simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 7543834BCEC; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:32:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <90659DCD-2A36-11D9-9E5D-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:43:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29177 >>> That is also possible, and seems to be what the previous discussion >>> indicated. More work though. >> But better result. > I disagree, if I run Emacs on X I don't want to wade through lines of > documentation that applies for W32/msdos/OSX. My take on this is that if the documentation is very different for each system, then either the function's functionality is ill-defined or the docstring gives too much precision. > And if the real function is in another file the benefit of clicking on "C > source code" is reduced. Good point. Richard's suggestion to tweak the link-following code so as to look for macfoo.c (or w32foo.c) is a better idea. Stefan