From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in revision 114466 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:40:16 +0800 Message-ID: References: <831u49fkxk.fsf@gnu.org> <83pprse4mf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380598823 7925 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2013 03:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 03:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 05:40:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqp0-0003EW-3O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqoz-0007YY-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqov-0007YS-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqou-0006wU-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ie0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a]:53159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQqor-0006vy-TH; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id x13so12619727ief.15 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=AMgYinHPHwH4GfvsmSYbTSzZqhn9Yrfu0Uyknwcxdsg=; b=Xr3p4Ap5ydMCyn6K6bti9/hmH3+9HqmL4HjO3o3deuE0efgpZza6hyTcGWMTv3qS9P sBN392bM01RR12M8i3SewP1c8qjyKumORCtKoFZuHMEcz72VdKXGna43ptste2binWMU L7fwDxG3aGYdfRqdObTqiHsqW1SD3YRgU5PRudovUSGX8hVoRYI1KgLwo+RdL/EoaVix MFXGRhgb70g3UIvPx+vjbXV8SP2bJHXe8U5dsEbnfrQZHS8opftiuS5lObecbF1dWEvU n5m2Fl8DliGhdjeKcnJs9DvCEBTFdymeSFTZwFwf2m1TLAALle+GMmJuN+3Uo8WlcUC1 /1lg== X-Received: by 10.50.117.3 with SMTP id ka3mr16516224igb.15.1380598817043; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.42.133.72 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:40:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163760 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > But the statement that every user option and command needs > documentation does not speak about manuals. In any case, that's how I > understood it: these things need documentation. Sorry for being unclear. Actually, I _do_ (and _did_) mean the documentation in the manuals (*.texi). > What we might want/need (I have proposed this several times, and so have > others) is linking from doc strings to the manuals. That would indeed be > useful, IMO. It would provide missing glue, as you put it. > > There are a very few doc strings, IIRC, that actually do this. It would > be good to generalize it, or at least make use of it more. +1 -- Best regards, Xue Fuqiao. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/