From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address? Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:43:21 +0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527572495 2842 195.159.176.226 (29 May 2018 05:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 05:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: rocky.bernstein@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 29 07:41:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNXNx-0000dO-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 07:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNXQ4-0000jL-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 01:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56251) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNXPy-0000jC-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 01:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNXPx-0007Bm-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 01:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22f]:36125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNXPx-0007Ba-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 01:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id 14-v6so3985310oie.3 for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 22:43:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=ecS+s3kqfMooQpc2OAecOMnK9zj0TwB6vrV67E6IB2A=; b=hNBL45ECM1IQ92IGL1KYBnihdazc6h6FmLEHLj0IIzwyFp8n4qEtCjWCUYyWqk1HwJ RfmVlBSLVzYwaWDUhEXK16B+pgGbzhlN/Gk8/wWL3Rf81CAXFtgHp2w0rt8uhclxBe0l ipYdmdHNOmtEDHU08f7Q8703OINeAqMOpA6cRpPgDV9tp3++/2HCKUsDm+z2am4NBE+w phLxprlo/GCYJBfs1PBhzI6NO1gFJpvGgdCGTYOowv7sPDdMnQ5yteoDvGMvI/Z30HOi vWK8/V1ksWUzHSSMqRt72V38SLxIqiqndF1CH1m4QFX29ND/YQgiSLy7FhnyOQ1nEwd6 acZw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=ecS+s3kqfMooQpc2OAecOMnK9zj0TwB6vrV67E6IB2A=; b=YYmj4AYTYHLsdiQPzHRRgTga/7ejfDQ9OHCvNV1pI7fZMf/pHDS3a9RmoA/j31A3pQ SZdTbBKHW8ty15/qInh49kS7aMovPWhw+vnRGUhliaxig9qlTGPugWWuqA5pMDl6D750 9K/4Ev2UAgfcOQjYxYCsYrMb4Eq+t/IjpKuBkPp1oxD2LMPOiCyWqs6EgVrIrHh2nNtB SkCEeUwFtk3QwJUGtS/SGcIzHddFt8qDt5K2ajS2uN6KYws5Iox6lsPH3d49Zd3xKhKK PxCQMtemzmw5khXiK2QDHCoJzJp4OnFmAMFyFyKwhzRTCSsMOZ6k18q+upVUWvEb/Bnt Jycg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwcITvMAEP/ZZGg3K6ZnsTPYnxb8pqhZSEcryXCIjjZI7GetYDwV ZEuQdDG3JKl0MN/F3ul2p7Bu0GaMTLRTV9DUNfs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJhdKBVMMCL2RkskWXhsqQWN2j3VfDpvfvxyztqx4HUHMRewDZnVMwzArEPdcDksG+zHd5t0ZOBWm9Eo0aeij4= X-Received: by 2002:aca:56c8:: with SMTP id k191-v6mr2242641oib.221.1527572612892; Mon, 28 May 2018 22:43:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225794 Archived-At: On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Rocky Bernstein 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.