From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22336@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:00:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfuxm1t7m.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9i33v3a.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:34:01 +0200")
> ':method' is in the doc string, which for me was a clear sign it
> should be documented.
I consider that the docstring should be a "reference" documenting as
much of the supported behavior as possible, whereas the manual should be
more accessible (give context and examples) and less exhaustive.
> Such dynamically-updated doc string would be very good to have, I
> think, but I needed to work with what was there, and of course
> couldn't use the kind of intimate knowledge of the implementation that
> you have.
I definitely understand that, and I thank you for doing this work.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-24 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 9:06 bug#22336: 25.0.50; cl-generic.el features are not documented in ELisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-09 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 5:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 8:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 17:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-23 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 0:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 0:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 5:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-24 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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