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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 35228@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35228: 26.1; Please consider adding a doc string for `extended-command-history'
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:45:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blj2loxb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y34g4mzm.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:47:57 +0100")

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> How's the following?

[...]

> -(defvar extended-command-history nil)
> +(defvar extended-command-history nil
> +  "History list for extended command name arguments.
> +It is used by `execute-extended-command', and its maximum length
> +is determined by the value of `history-length', which see.")

I kinda think this is unnecessary -- we have a gazillion history
variables in Emacs, and adding doc strings to them all is pretty
pointless -- it's self-evident what they're used for.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 14:22 bug#35228: 26.1; Please consider adding a doc string for `extended-command-history' Drew Adams
2019-04-11 14:47 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-04-11 15:43   ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 14:45   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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