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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: docstrings in dired.el
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:41:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85lk21h69m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18486.19302.606327.955538@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 06:43:18 +0200")

"Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> I am trying to develop proced.el in analogy with dired.el. However,
> I am always a bit annoyed by the fact that too many functions in
> dired.el come with comments instead of docstrings. So I'll convert
> these comments into docstrings (unless somebody is really unhappy
> about that).

dired has an ancient history, from a time when DOC strings were still
occupying main memory.

M-x checkdoc RET

would probably help with the conversion.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23  4:43 docstrings in dired.el Roland Winkler
2008-05-23  6:34 ` Michael Olson
2008-05-23  6:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-23  9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-23 10:11   ` proced.el [was: docstrings in dired.el] Roland Winkler
2008-05-23 11:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-24  0:51       ` Roland Winkler
2008-05-24 16:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-24 23:24           ` Roland Winkler
2008-05-25  3:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-24 14:13       ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-24 15:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-24 18:57           ` proced.el Stefan Monnier
2008-05-24 19:26             ` proced.el Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-24 19:34               ` proced.el Stefan Monnier
2008-05-24  3:39   ` docstrings in dired.el Richard M Stallman
2008-05-24  7:20     ` Eli Zaretskii

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