bug#27230: eldoc doc

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 6/4/17 1:38 PM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:
>  From the top of eldoc.el:
> 
> ;; One useful way to enable this minor mode is to put the following in your
> ;; .emacs:
> ;;
> ;;      (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'eldoc-mode)
> ;;      (add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook 'eldoc-mode)
> ;;      (add-hook 'ielm-mode-hook 'eldoc-mode)
> ;;      (add-hook 'eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook 'eldoc-mode)
> 
> In 25.2, none of these lines are needed.  Maybe
> these lines could be replaced with a mention of global-eldoc-mode,
> and how the "globalized" minor mode and eldoc-mode interact (not sure
> how they do).

Do you mean that how define-globalized-minor-mode works is unclear to 
you, or some aspects of how it applies to eldoc-mode?

> Also, most of the functions in eldoc have no docstring (seems ironic).
> Would there be any interest in a patch to fix that?

Sure!