From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu,
"Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:49:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9gjmwsy.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ziucx02l.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Mar 05 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Doc strings should never be wrapped with the likes of M-q. For
> starters, this can make the first line include more than one
> sentence.
IME, if you hit M-q in a doc string, the first line isn't changed.
Perhaps that only works when point is not on the first line, though.
> More generally, there are already constructs we recognize
> in doc strings that produce longer or shorter strings when displayed,
> so M-q is just not up to the job, and shouldn't be used.
But there's no real alternative, is there? IOW, you might as well use
M-q, because if you use something like \\[my-function], you never know
if that'll display as a short key binding, a long key binding, or as
`M-x my-function', which can actually be very long.
(I guess the best way would be to custom-wrap doc strings before
displaying them, after constructs such as \\[...] have been resolved.)
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-06 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-03 5:47 Character literals for Unicode (control) characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03 6:20 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-03 6:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03 6:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-03 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 15:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-05 15:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-05 16:51 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 2:27 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06 15:24 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 17:35 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 18:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 19:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 20:31 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-14 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-15 11:09 ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-15 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-16 8:16 ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-14 21:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-19 16:27 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-20 12:58 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-20 13:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-25 17:41 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-04-22 2:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-22 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 9:39 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-22 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25 17:48 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 16:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 17:12 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 18:34 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-05 22:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-06 15:49 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-03-06 16:55 ` Drew Adams
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