From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove * characters from the front of variable docstrings Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335474116 1030 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2012 21:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 23:01:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SNVoz-0004PT-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNVoy-0005gH-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNVov-0005ft-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNVot-00086m-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:56481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNVor-00085s-1e; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q3QL1cgN005434; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 87CDAB4179; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:08:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4204=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4204> : streams <750420> : uri <1104011> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150065 Archived-At: > However, hasn't some information been lost in the process? Yup. It should only have been applied to defcustoms. > Shouldn't it (and other defvars with *s) have been converted to defcustoms? They should be converted to defcustoms, indeed, and only after that can the * be removed. Stefan