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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: {Spam?} Re: convert-standard-filename's doc
Date: 30 May 2004 17:53:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1vfidd1nt.fsf-monnier+spam@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040529194813.6952.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es>

> most cases, when I'm going to use a funcion on a Windows Emacs, I'm
> interested on what it does, not what it would do, were I to use it on
> GNU/Linux (or any other present or future environment)...

Agreed.  The only thing important is "what does it conceptually do", and
then maybe some examples.  The conceptual behavior is system-agnostic, so
its description is the generic part of the docstring.  The system-specific
part doesn't have to be complete since it should just give enough examples
for people to be able to infer the rest.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-30 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-27 14:05 convert-standard-filename's doc Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-27 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-27 22:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-28  9:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28 16:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-29 11:40         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28  9:27     ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-28 13:51       ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-28 18:26         ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 11:13           ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-29 14:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-29 14:47               ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-29 17:55             ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-30 21:53               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-31  7:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-31  7:39                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 12:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28 16:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-29  0:49         ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 17:02         ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-29 17:56           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 11:18     ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-30 14:30       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-28  7:28   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 10:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28  5:22 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-28  9:32   ` Juanma Barranquero

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