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: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:00 -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> <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497149125 32327 195.159.176.226 (11 Jun 2017 02:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 02:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 11 04:45:21 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 1dJssS-00089s-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2017 04:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJssX-00040N-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50651) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrT-0003RO-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrT-0000tf-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrB-0000hi-EA; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dJsrA-0006iz-J5; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:44:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <83fuf870zf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:31:16 +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:215570 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. ]]] > > > - since when it was introduced > > > > That does not seem important to me. > But we already do have this information for customizable variables at > least. There are special reasons for wanting that for customization features. > > We could define a systematic way to indicate this in doc strings. > I think the names of hook variables always match a few specific > regular expressions, so this information is already there. There are a few old hook variables that we did not rename to follow the standard naming convention. We could add those specific names as alternatives in the regexp; then it would be 100% accurate. -- 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.