From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:58:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvioynwfva.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r4dbud66.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se
>> That's what is meant by self-documenting.
> OK. And that's great. But, Irssi have that and - actually, that's
> not uncommon at all. But perhaps Emacs implemented it in the most
> exhaustive and consistent way, and that's why they push for it?
It's also because Emacs introduced the notion of docstring, which is now
fairly common is all programming languages (javadoc, etc...).
Stefan
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2013-08-26 22:43 Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2013-08-27 0:05 ` Perry Smith
2013-08-27 0:25 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2013-08-27 9:07 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-08-27 23:52 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-08-28 3:03 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2013-08-29 0:39 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-08-28 20:19 ` Ken Goldman
2013-08-29 0:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-08-28 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-03 19:25 ` Ken Goldman
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2013-10-03 19:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 21:09 ` W. Greenhouse
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2013-08-28 21:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 2:04 ` Kevin Montuori
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2013-08-29 2:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 3:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 7:59 ` W. Greenhouse
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2013-08-29 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 21:05 ` Drew Adams
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2013-08-29 21:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 23:37 ` Drew Adams
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2013-08-30 0:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-29 22:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-30 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-30 1:32 ` MBR
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2013-08-30 2:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-30 11:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-30 12:21 ` Ludwig, Mark
2013-08-30 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-29 23:50 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
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2013-08-30 0:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-30 1:23 ` Jorge
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2013-08-30 2:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-30 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-30 16:24 ` Jorge
2013-10-04 11:30 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-10-04 21:59 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-10-04 23:16 ` Bob Proulx
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2013-10-04 23:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-06 12:07 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-06 21:50 ` Evans Winner
2013-10-09 19:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-10 4:27 ` Teemu Likonen
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2013-10-10 5:25 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-10 8:24 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-10 22:18 ` Bob Proulx
2013-10-11 10:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-10 10:36 ` Phillip Lord
2013-10-10 11:00 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-10-10 15:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-10-11 11:06 ` Phillip Lord
2013-10-12 22:01 ` Christopher Ritsen
2013-10-14 11:04 ` Phillip Lord
2013-10-14 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-14 19:25 ` Christopher Ritsen
2013-10-15 11:30 ` Phillip Lord
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2013-10-15 17:56 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-10-14 21:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-15 6:27 ` Bob Proulx
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2013-10-15 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-16 4:56 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-17 1:45 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-10-13 2:36 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-10 13:04 ` Carson Chittom
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2013-10-10 20:44 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-10-10 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-11 10:56 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-11 19:06 ` Bob Proulx
2013-10-12 7:48 ` Andreas Röhler
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2013-10-12 20:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-10 23:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-11 0:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-11 5:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2013-10-11 17:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-09 19:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-10 2:28 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-09 21:30 ` Tom Davey
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2013-10-09 21:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-10 16:24 ` henry atting
2013-10-11 5:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2013-10-04 17:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-04 19:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2013-10-04 20:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-08 11:36 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-09 19:43 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-10-13 14:47 ` Eric Brown
2013-10-13 15:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-13 17:52 ` Eric Brown
2013-10-13 18:13 ` Alex Schroeder
2013-10-13 19:23 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-08-27 1:44 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-27 23:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 0:20 ` Marko Vojinovic
2013-08-28 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-08-28 1:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 0:35 ` Marc Weber
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2013-08-28 1:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 3:25 ` Marc Weber
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2013-08-28 4:08 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-28 20:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 20:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-28 1:39 ` Jorge
2013-10-12 13:39 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-10-12 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-12 20:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-12 20:57 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-10-12 20:58 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-10-12 21:01 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-10-12 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-12 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-10-13 13:33 ` Kai Großjohann
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2013-10-13 15:25 ` Emanuel Berg
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