From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:14:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5n8y9g9.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jek6hhmd9y.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:02:17 +0200")
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>> Since `default' is a keyword in C, `defaults' is a good replacement.
>
> `default' is special cased: you can spell it `defalt' in the C code and
> still get `DEFAULT' in the doc string.
Thanks for the hint. Now I see that make-docfile explicitly converts
`defalt' to `default' in docstrings. It's strange that no one function
in Emacs uses this trick for the `default'-like arguments.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 14:46 Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-14 14:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-15 22:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-09-16 12:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-09-16 22:14 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-09-16 12:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-16 22:16 ` Juri Linkov
2005-09-17 13:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-17 14:30 ` Drew Adams
2005-09-17 20:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-09-19 15:54 ` Drew Adams
2005-09-19 17:15 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-09-19 1:31 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-19 8:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-09-16 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2005-09-16 15:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-09-16 22:17 ` Juri Linkov
2005-09-16 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2005-09-16 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2005-09-17 0:53 ` Drew Adams
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