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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 27996@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27996: open-dribble-file docstring improvement
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:56:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l3nb2rw.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poc8kxff.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Mon, 07 Aug 2017 08:56:36 +0800")

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> open-dribble-file is an interactive built-in function in ‘C source code’.
>
>> Start writing all keyboard characters to a dribble file called FILE.
>> If FILE is nil, close any open dribble file.
>> The file will be closed when Emacs exits.
>
> On the last line I would say
>
> < Else the file will be closed when Emacs exits.
>
> as some readers wouldn't notice the second line as that is just talking
> about parameters.
>
> Also mention how often it is written. Every keystroke? Every newline?

I've now clarified these two things.

> Also when one does C-x C-s etc.

But not that thing, because it's superfluous.

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2017-08-07  0:56 bug#27996: open-dribble-file docstring improvement 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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