From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Referencing variables beginning with an asterisk in docstrings broken? Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:32:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87twe8gaqm.fsf@reisefreund.localdomain> <87shtoeag6.fsf@reisefreund.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472430603 30710 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2016 00:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:30:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nathanael Schweers Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 02:30:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1beASd-0007VV-4s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 02:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beASa-00058c-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beASA-00058L-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beAS4-0006MP-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:60945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beAS4-0006MB-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u7T0U1op002947; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 442CB66274; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:32:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87shtoeag6.fsf@reisefreund.localdomain> (Nathanael Schweers's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2016 01:32:41 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5780=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5780> : inlines <5148> : streams <1691643> : uri <2276945> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111223 Archived-At: > I did both. I also filed a bug, but it seems that this is because of > some heuristic to prevent too many false positives. I guess I=E2=80=99ll= either > change my naming, or just live with it. Currently I use > *prefix/public-var*, but I guess prefix/*public-var* might be even > better. the prefix/ already says that it's a global/dynamic var, so the asterisks are just added noise at that point. Stefan