From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar'
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 03:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tumiqspq.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YLWIRv8MUO/TgJ8R@protected.localdomain
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> > > (defmacro my-fun ()
> > > `(defun my-fun ()
> > > ,my-doc
> > > (ignore)))
> > I'm only partially joking, actually, not at all - is the function's
> > documentation for your code's readers really that much less important
> > than its code? Maybe it's even the other way round?
>
> Yes, obviously it is not practical, but it works. And is not me who
> defines those functions. I am generating 50+ function aliases by
> Drew's suggestion: [...]
Such a loop with even automatically generated docstrings using a
template is of course a different issue that doing that for one function
as in the example above.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-01 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-31 23:00 Supplying DOC string in a `defun' using `defvar' ludvig-faddeev
2021-05-31 23:11 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-31 23:13 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-31 23:32 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-05-31 23:43 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:14 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-06-01 0:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:35 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 0:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:00 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 1:07 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 1:28 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2021-06-01 1:33 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 13:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 16:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 22:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-01 5:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 14:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 14:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 15:01 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-01 15:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-01 18:20 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 18:33 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-02 22:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-02 22:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 6:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 7:23 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-06-03 9:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 14:17 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-06-02 15:59 ` FW: " Drew Adams
2021-06-02 16:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 18:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 22:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-02 4:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 5:06 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-02 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 13:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 14:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 16:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 18:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-02 19:55 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-02 22:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-02 22:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-02 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 10:57 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 13:43 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 15:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-03 16:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-03 6:29 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-03 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-03 6:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-01 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-01 16:34 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-01 18:51 ` Nick Dokos
2021-06-01 19:02 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-01 22:15 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-06-01 23:08 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-31 23:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-31 23:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:46 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 0:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 0:35 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 1:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 1:49 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 14:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 21:50 ` ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01 22:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-31 23:40 ` Jean Louis
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