From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y7eseiom.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:53:00 +0200
>>
>> Uh what? Doc strings are not placed in the memory of Emacs except for
>> those of uncompiled Lisp code.
>
> You mean, when I'm looking at a buffer that displays the doc string of
> something, that doc string is not in memory?
Only as long as the help buffer persists with this content. Do you
really claim the ephemeral size of the help buffer to be an important
consideration concerning the size of DOC strings?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 8:04 Emacs documentation sources Dave Pawson
2007-09-26 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 17:43 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 18:07 ` Richard G Riley
2007-09-26 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 8:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 19:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-26 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 6:17 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-27 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-28 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1419.1190967231.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1475.1191082767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 19:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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