From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <55901443.5070605@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435569207 18268 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 09:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 11:13:19 2015 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 1Z9V7u-0005mp-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9V7t-0000Zd-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9V7n-0000Tm-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9V7m-0005vk-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9V7i-0005td-UL; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9V7i-0002gY-Dt; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:13:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <55901443.5070605@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:35:31 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:187634 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Unfortunately that's not true for the current Emacs docstrings. For example, > the docstring for verilog-auto-declare-nettype contains this: > Note using `default_nettype none isn't recommended practice; It is easy to change the rule to reject this as a quotation because there is no close-quote on the same line. I don't think we need a solution that is totally general for everything we might possibly want to put in doc strings. I'm not against one, if it is clean and painless. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.