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: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7acc7d4f-23cc-4b6a-b062-ef92805e465b@default> <878tl3rz38.fsf@x230.lts> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496981448 17417 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2017 04:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 04:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 06:10:43 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 1dJBFz-0004B2-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 06:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJBG2-0001c7-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJBFu-0001br-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJBFt-0006JX-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJBFp-0006Ik-Dx; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dJBFo-0001W1-UT; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:48:19 +0900) 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:215535 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. ]]] > 2) my remark about javadoc was not intended to suggest a > replacement of the current documentation, but to have a document > that has all the docstring information (Emacs API) in one > place. It would be an alternative to the info system, with exactly > the same contents. It would be a great tool to find API > information and also very practical to check if the rules defined > in the GNU Coding Standards are respected. All the doc strings are found together in one place: Emacs. That's a program, not a document. But why in practice would it be better to have them all in one document? It should not be hard to write a Lisp program which will write that document into a file, straight from Emacs. -- 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.