From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:27:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <13fd66c8-b22b-5b87-bd8c-34dbe0c7ec38@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496885303 24336 195.159.176.226 (8 Jun 2017 01:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 01:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 08 03:28:19 2017 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 1dImFG-00063F-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:28:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dImFM-0006dF-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dImEl-0006d7-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dImEk-0002T4-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dImEV-0002QU-Na; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dImEV-0002ub-4x; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:27:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <13fd66c8-b22b-5b87-bd8c-34dbe0c7ec38@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 6 Jun 2017 23:47:10 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:215513 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. ]]] The GNU Project has a policy about what constitutes a good manual. A series of doc strings is not acceptable. See Doc Strings and Manuals in the GNU Coding Standards. Please don't take up time arguing about this -- it won't change anything. -- 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.