From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 21:46:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lir9que.fsf@md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCp2gZ7zLxEqO+ryYSCzO0S-kPpYT5u-qfK2thK==fv6-yffA@mail.gmail.com> (Rocky Bernstein's message of "Mon, 28 May 2018 21:33:10 -0400")
Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> writes:
> Recently it was pointed out to me that there are various docstrings that
> use -- without surrounding spaces as in this for upcase
>
> The argument object is not altered--the value is a copy.
>
> ^^^^^
>
> You can find other examples in casefiddle.c and in some Emacs Lisp code as
> well like the docstring for comiint-scroll-show-maximum-output. Is this
> intentional, or accidental? Should it be changed?
Most likely intentional. It looks like it is trying to emulate an
em-dash. In a non-proportional font, it's probably as close as your
going to get.
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-29 1:46 UTC|newest]
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2018-05-29 1:33 Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address? Rocky Bernstein
2018-05-29 1:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
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2018-05-29 0:53 Rocky Bernstein
2018-05-29 5:43 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-29 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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