From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 00:50:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d081c78-3e64-4cc3-afdd-471b49f21f24@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d5a1ca0-645f-421f-8044-f344c586705d@default>
On 6/7/17 12:21 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> they should not duplicate each other.
>>
>> Then you have something else in mind than the current
>> situation with documentation in Emacs.
>
> No, you do, if you think the intention now is that
> they duplicate each other. It never has been.
Please look up the difference between "intention" and "current situation".
> Some of the information is often the same; that's all.
That's called "duplication".
> In particular, doc strings are written as user help.
> The interactive use, if any, is typically described
> first, and from the point of an interactive user.
> Not so, the Elisp manual.
We have different manuals, with different goals.
The fact that docstrings often describe the interactive case (when it
exists) doesn't make them necessarily targeted at the end user. Just
exhaustive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-06 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 21:26 docstrings and elisp reference Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06 0:09 ` Tino Calancha
2017-06-06 5:10 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-06 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:25 ` Stephen Leake
2017-06-06 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 2:29 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 3:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08 5:39 ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08 8:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-08 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 15:42 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09 0:25 ` Chad Brown
2017-06-08 18:29 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-08 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 18:10 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-08 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 20:22 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-08 22:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-09 5:20 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-09 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 8:27 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 12:32 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-09 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-09 19:24 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-06-10 1:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-10 11:36 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-06-10 14:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-10 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-11 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-11 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-12 3:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-13 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-10 8:22 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-10 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 20:45 ` Joost Kremers
2017-06-07 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 13:23 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-07 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-07 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 20:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-06 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-06 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2017-06-07 5:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 12:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 13:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-17 13:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-17 20:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-18 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-17 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-20 18:05 ` John Wiegley
2017-06-17 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:59 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-17 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-19 18:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-06-07 14:05 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-08 1:27 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:42 ` Richard Stallman
2017-06-06 22:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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