From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lost argument and doc string Date: 13 Feb 2002 21:02:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20020212.114825.01368903.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <20020213.122241.01370041.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013635451 27797 195.204.10.66 (13 Feb 2002 21:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Feb 2002 21:24:11 GMT Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, lektu@terra.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, andrewi@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16b6sr-0007E8-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:24:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16b6hH-00077c-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: from protactinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.176]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16b6fB-0006yI-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from host213-1-111-222.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.1.111.222] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by protactinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16b6f1-00061h-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:09:52 +0000 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA00486; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:02:42 GMT Original-To: Tak Ota In-Reply-To: <20020213.122241.01370041.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.90 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1090 Tak Ota writes: > > Be careful that the following does the right thing: > > > > (defvar string-variable "String value" "\ > > This is the documentation for a string variable.") > > > > > > That seems like the only logical reason for the current convention. > > But my point is that they are all eventually processed by > `read_c_string_or_comment' later, which takes care of backslash The backslash wasn't what I was concerned about. We need to make sure that "String value" is not picked up as a documentation string in the above case. That is the only reason I can think of where the current convention might be useful. -- Jason Rumney _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel