From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:17:13 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85y7eseiom.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <711a73df0709260104l97cb41ft5fee3a882cef05c9@mail.gmail.com> <85ve9x431f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190875255 24328 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2007 06:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 27 08:40:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ian38-0000DL-Di for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ian35-0003bk-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.141.40.68.MISMATCH!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer1.kpn.DE!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:stMcJs8iAmequbIlb6PD9XFeIEQ= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Sep 2007 08:17:13 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99d47c35.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=BHOU]aZ_nECV`H8_`hhQD^9QSCVg3dOFOIC5DBZVJ9Kk; 4A7QeZH; J]`jCI1mG\[J Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152405 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47913 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> 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