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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Fill paragraph in doc string and \\{somekeymap}
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:22:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACKEHOCEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472E6EB2.8050002@gmail.com>

> >> Would it not be nice if \\[keymap] and \\{keymap} behaved as paragraph
> >> breaks in doc strings?
> >
> > No, certainly not. I cannot imagine why that would be imposed.
> They should
> > have no effect on formatting (beyond what they do now).
> >
> > There are other ways to insert a paragraph break. If you want a
> > syntax-independent way to do that in a doc string, that might be a
> > reasonable request, but, please, let's not combine paragraph syntax with
> > \\[...],\\{...}, or \\<...>.
>
> I was mostly thinking of filling.

Filling too should be separate from \\[...] etc. In my own uses of these,
for instance, I don't think there is one occurrence where I want to fill the
text of the current paragraph. Why assume that there is a connection between
these two things?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-05  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-04 23:49 Fill paragraph in doc string and \\{somekeymap} Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-05  0:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-11-05  1:15   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-05  1:22     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-11-05  1:42       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-05  1:47         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-05  2:12           ` Drew Adams

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