From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23902: 25.1.50; Strange warning on string-collate-equalp's docstring Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:06:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vb0jeo56.fsf@telefonica.net> <831t36omxx.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn2aolcm.fsf@web.de> <83inwin5uu.fsf@gnu.org> <877fcyoj6j.fsf@web.de> <8360sin2zy.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8hug1ho.fsf@web.de> <83zipulm79.fsf@gnu.org> <87shvmtmac.fsf@web.de> <83lh1ekwa1.fsf@gnu.org> <871t35ru8x.fsf@web.de> <83shvkigmv.fsf@gnu.org> <871t33q21e.fsf@web.de> <831t33i9qc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468084102 13148 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2016 17:08:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 17:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, oscarfv@telefonica.net, 23902@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 19:08:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1bLvjf-0006Oh-9B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 19:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvje-0006AE-EG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvjX-0006A8-IT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvjW-000269-AP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvjW-000265-7B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvjW-00030H-36 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:08:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:08:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23902 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23902-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23902.146808402611454 (code B ref 23902); Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:08:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23902) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2016 17:07:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44339 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bLvic-0002yf-0s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59035) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bLviZ-0002y9-Mc for 23902@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLviT-0001zA-OF for 23902@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLviN-0001xh-HJ; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bLviF-0005Pk-2U; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:06:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <831t33i9qc.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:52:43 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:120707 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. ]]] > > Are the spaces before the closing comment delimiter (delimiting > > the docstring) significant? > You mean, before the closing "*/" ? No, these are not significant. > > When not, why are they used? > To keep C comments in their usual GNU C style, I suppose. We often put two spaces there so that M-e will see it as the end of a sentence. -- 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.