From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: docstrings (was: Re: Prefix Argument and optional argument) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:03:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87o7y0etyb.fsf_-_@dataswamp.org> References: <87h73t5gyi.fsf@web.de> <878rp5f7vh.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qux5dbs.fsf@web.de> <87sfndkrso.fsf@web.de> <87ilo9kpdl.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34821"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/vxZNRgbBanR17ktm6MM2imUecg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 19:04:17 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9UvJ-0008o9-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9UvH-0006dH-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9Uuc-0006d5-Uf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o9Uub-0005n3-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o9UuZ-0007ea-2T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:03:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138360 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech wrote: > (defun poke (prefix) > "TODO." > (interactive "P")) > > It is only because body is empty then, right? The way it is implemented actually the docstring is part of the body! Eval this which has the same interface/signature as the `defun' macro: (defmacro defun-ds (name args &rest body) (car body) ) And then try it: (defun-ds f (x) "Doc string." x) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal