From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>, 22813@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22813: 24.5; doc string of `apropos-variable' - mention C-u
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:40:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a60493f9-f1fd-46f4-aef2-439f9f82bb46@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c8ac019-cb35-4654-b747-c2eb6493cdd6@default>
> Conventionally we address doc strings for commands to an interactive
> user.
>
> We say something like "With a prefix argument...", not mentioning it
> by
> name as a parameter. We may also (at the end) say something like
> "When called from Lisp, DO-NOT-ALL..." IOW, the interactive user
> gets a coherent description that does not involve Lisp parameters
> s?he need not bother with.
Eli's response was better than mine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 5:17 bug#22813: 24.5; doc string of `apropos-variable' - mention C-u Drew Adams
2016-02-26 13:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-26 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-26 14:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-26 14:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-26 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-26 15:48 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-26 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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