all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: ludvig-faddeev@gmx.com
Cc: 48768@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48768: Introducing ability to append to docstring
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:53:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lnwPQ-0002Bd-VR@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-a4406541-d47b-4072-8d72-9c1d507075a0-1622506022078@3c-app-mailcom-bs01> (ludvig-faddeev@gmx.com)

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > A useful capability would allow one to append to a defun docstring using a defvar.

  > User could write a brief description for the docstring, and later append more details
  > from a defvar.

Could you show an example of what this would look like, in use?

I'm trying to guess -- though I don't have confidence in my guess --
and I think this might be a useful feature but would be easier to use
with a different interface.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)







  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01  0:07 bug#48768: Introducing ability to append to docstring ludvig-faddeev
2021-06-01  4:53 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-06-01 14:08   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-01 14:44     ` bug#48768: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-01 15:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-01 16:03   ` ludvig-faddeev

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E1lnwPQ-0002Bd-VR@fencepost.gnu.org \
    --to=rms@gnu.org \
    --cc=48768@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=ludvig-faddeev@gmx.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.