From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: message's docstring
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:11:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0611111611q1a6767b5if0b1a0d21f8b057c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Two slight inconsistencies/problems in message's docstring:
1) It says:
DEFUN ("message", Fmessage, Smessage, 1, MANY, 0,
doc: /* Print a one-line message at the bottom of the screen.
Why "a one-line message"? There's nothing stopping
(message "line 1\nline 2")
for working, or even
(message "%s\n%s" "line1" "line2")
2) The docstring doesn't mention that the message is returned.
However, several modules do rely on it (files.el, for example, has
"(y-or-n-p (message ...))".
It is OK the following change, or there are policy issues here?
/L/e/k/t/u
Index: src/editfns.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/editfns.c,v
retrieving revision 1.428
diff -u -2 -r1.428 editfns.c
--- src/editfns.c 11 Sep 2006 08:26:47 -0000 1.428
+++ src/editfns.c 11 Nov 2006 23:48:16 -0000
@@ -3172,7 +3172,8 @@
DEFUN ("message", Fmessage, Smessage, 1, MANY, 0,
- doc: /* Print a one-line message at the bottom of the screen.
+ doc: /* Print a message at the bottom of the screen.
The message also goes into the `*Messages*' buffer.
\(In keyboard macros, that's all it does.)
+Return the message.
The first argument is a format control string, and the rest are data
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-12 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 0:11 Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2006-11-12 10:16 ` message's docstring David Kastrup
2006-11-12 12:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 12:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-12 12:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 12:29 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-12 12:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 9:43 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-13 18:36 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-11-13 19:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
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