From: Daniel Brockman <drlion@deepwood.net>
Subject: Re: doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p'
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:01:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ya8mv6x.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200410150412.i9F4CUD12762@raven.dms.auburn.edu
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> The space constraint is 67 characters or less, so it will not look
> bad in the apropos output. So 66 is perfectly acceptable.
You're right. I was just being defensive: If all the docstrings are
to be consistently worded, those extra seven characters might not fit
as easily the next time you're writing a docstring for a function that
takes a buffer but not a name.
> OK, so what about:
>
> DEFUN ("local-variable-if-set-p", Flocal_variable_if_set_p, Slocal_variable_if_set_p,
> 1, 2, 0,
> doc: /* Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in BUFFER when set there.
> More precisely, this means that setting the variable \(with `set' or`setq'),
> while it does not have a `let'-style binding that was made in BUFFER,
> will produce a buffer local binding. See Info node
> `(elisp)Creating Buffer-Local'.
> BUFFER must be a buffer \(not a buffer name) and defaults to
> the current buffer. */)
I think this is good. I would just rearrange the clauses slightly:
DEFUN ("local-variable-if-set-p", Flocal_variable_if_set_p, Slocal_variable_if_set_p,
1, 2, 0,
doc: /* Non-nil if VARIABLE will be local in BUFFER when set there.
More precisely, this means that setting the variable (with `set' or `setq')
will produce a buffer-local binding, unless the variable already has
a `let'-style binding that was made in BUFFER.
See Info node `(elisp)Creating Buffer-Local'.
BUFFER must be a buffer \(not a buffer name) and defaults to
the current buffer. */)
> Actually there is a convention in the Elisp manual to call the
> argument BUFFER if it has to be a buffer and BUFFER-OR-NAME if it
> can be a buffer or a buffer name. That convention is consistently
> followed in the Elisp manual, but not in docstrings. So one can not
> just rely on it in docstrings.
OK, so we'll at least be following the convention --- that's good. :-)
--
Daniel Brockman
drlion@deepwood.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 16:48 doc string of `local-variable-if-set-p' Masatake YAMATO
2004-10-13 17:13 ` Stefan
2004-10-13 17:22 ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-10-13 17:35 ` Stefan
2004-10-13 17:57 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 18:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 18:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15 0:53 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15 1:52 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15 2:12 ` Daniel Brockman
2004-10-15 2:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15 3:12 ` Daniel Brockman
2004-10-15 4:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15 5:01 ` Daniel Brockman [this message]
2004-10-16 3:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 17:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 22:24 ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-10-14 0:33 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-15 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
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