From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Eldoc cannot handle CL-style paramlist with default values? Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:06:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87egxkaj4m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87tx6nmx4w.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqbddl2g.fsf@web.de> <87r41kanrs.fsf@gmail.com> <87tx6ghlg9.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405559448 32035 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2014 01:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 01:10:48 +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 Jul 17 03:10:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aDX-0002gY-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:10:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aDW-0000L8-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aD6-0000K3-B2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aCy-0004is-ST for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aCy-0004ho-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X7aCx-0002Su-7x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from g231233164.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.233.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231233164.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231233164.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4I4K9AdgjPSNo8AcxXsANFHNRB4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98705 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Thorsten Jolitz writes: > >> > Can you please make a bug report? >> >> Done. > > Thanks! > >> Its actually the combination of normal args with &key arg with default >> values that does not seem to work, e.g. >> >> ,---- >> | (defun* foo (arg1 arg2 &key (arg3 "default"))) >> `---- > > No, that example works. Actually, the newline character in your > previous post seems to be the culprit, because the docstring building > code assumes that the printed argument list is a one-lined string. Yes, you are right. I would call this a (kind of) bug, because I have a use case where its convenient to put a newline as an arg's default value and only sometimes set it explicitly to nil, so it should work from (at least one) user's perspective. -- cheers, Thorsten