From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Docstring line length
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:51:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ep948-0002pf-JN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE081ABC-45E8-4BFA-A8E1-13CA017EF932@raeburn.org> (message from Ken Raeburn on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:12:55 -0500)
It occurred to me recently to wonder, perhaps we should consider
making the doc strings a little more structured and their display
more intelligent: Explicit markers for line breaks and indented
sections, and wrapped paragraphs for the main descriptive text, using
whatever width (and font) the user has chosen for her window.
Putting such a plan into effect would be a very large job. Since our
resources are limited, I am against this regardless of the details,
both now and after the release. We have lots of other work to do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-21 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-20 21:19 Docstring line length Bill Wohler
2005-12-20 23:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-20 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 0:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 0:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 0:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 0:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 0:20 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 0:54 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 1:37 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 7:21 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-12-21 18:52 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-21 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 21:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-22 5:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-22 17:00 ` Legal papers for Emacs contributions (was: Re: Docstring line length) Giorgos Keramidas
2005-12-22 22:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-23 2:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-12-23 0:12 ` Legal papers for Emacs contributions David Kastrup
2005-12-23 2:15 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-12-24 2:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-22 20:43 ` Docstring line length Juri Linkov
2005-12-22 21:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-22 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-22 22:27 ` link appearance (again) (was: RE: Docstring line length) Drew Adams
2005-12-22 5:47 ` Docstring line length Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-21 3:12 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-12-21 18:51 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-12-21 4:54 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-12-21 0:59 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 1:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-21 16:30 ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-21 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-21 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-21 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-21 23:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-21 5:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
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