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From: | Tino Calancha |
Subject: | Re: Doc strings starting with a line break |
Date: | Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:18:06 +0900 (JST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) |
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Richard Copley wrote:
On 18 September 2016 at 11:51, Tino Calancha <address@hidden> wrote:i am wondering what could be the reason for some doc strings starting with a break line. For instance, see `isearch-forward' or `looking-at-p'.The newline is escaped so it's not part of the docstring. For `looking-at-p' it allows the following line of code to fit into 80 characters.
I guess would fit without that trick: i count 77 characters.
For `isearch-forward' it seems unnecessary but it has been that way for 24 years. They do things differently there :)
I see. Indeed, it's being a long time. I will accept these strings as a cargo cult.
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