From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: rocky.bernstein@gmail.com
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:43:21 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8X5oJvtu7A=Q6dQqB_bhbAmPyygYGj1tesa7OAz6WC4Mw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCp2gZUAHirA5BPs__dTTcW1WzRTTRxi3TYkPT6sGpQd+pfvA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Rocky Bernstein <rocky.bernstein@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Recently it was pointed out to me that there are various docstrings that
use -- without surrounding spaces as in this for upcase
> The argument object is not altered--the value is a copy.
^^^^^
> You can find other examples in casefiddle.c and in some Emacs Lisp code
as well like the docstring for comiint-scroll-show-maximum-output.
> Is this intentional, or accidental? Should it be changed?
The more important issue is that a double hyphen is used where a dash
should be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-29 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-29 0:53 Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address? Rocky Bernstein
2018-05-29 5:43 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2018-05-29 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-29 1:33 Rocky Bernstein
2018-05-29 1:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
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