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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 20:14:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170617201423.GB2955@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9da1fc4f-1916-7d29-b9de-2ed265a9cf9a@yandex.ru>

Hello, Dmitry.

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 16:55:27 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 6/17/17 4:04 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > Are we really all that short of manpower?

> That has been my impression. Not for me to decide, though.

My impression is that we have been relatively stable over the last
few/several/many years.  Some old time regulars have dropped out, some
new people (including yourself) have replaced them.

> > For what it's worth, I read the Elisp manual frequently.

> Okay. But do you refer to it more often than to docstrings?

No, I refer to doc strings more often, but I probably spend about the
same amount of time reading doc strings and the manuals.  With Emacs
being so extensive, I can't possibly hold the details of even what I use
every day in my head.  Heck, I even consult the CC Mode manual (which I
largely wrote) to help me adjust my CC Mode configuration.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-17 20:14 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
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 [this message]
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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