From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:47:14 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87sixsunas.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87r4ddo4yp.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87d2oww758.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377816639 29123 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2013 22:50:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:50:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 00:50:43 2013 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 1VFB35-0004sr-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:50:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFB35-00009t-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:50:43 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lDispUdHLabDoUJjGWSVgrGzoN8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200893 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:93161 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Wrt filling doc strings, see also user option > `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column'. OK, that is simply the fill-column, for docstrings (in Elisp code), so you can fill it to be 67 (as is recommended) while filling everything else much wider, if you have this huge monitor (with tiny fonts). Yes, I see the benefit in that. As for me, with a 70-char Emacs screen, I have it like this ; t (non-integer) -> same as fill-column (which I have 66) (set-variable 'emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column t) But that is only related to this problem in the sense that I can visit a function's definition, and fill the docstring. I don't think that is smart, as the docstrings are probably line broken with some pedagogic thought in mind, that filling will screw. That is, on the other hand, worth it, as horizontal scrolling is royal pain. Still, it had to be done for so many docstrings, it would be unbearable to do! And if I were to update Emacs, would the changes I made manually to the -- manual, would they be persistent - for example, in the case of find-file? No, if I'm to change the docstrings themselves, I'll do it once and for all with some batch script. I wonder, though, if I should hold that thought for a couple of days, and perhaps something better will surface. It seems a little heavy-handed. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573