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Re: docstrings and elisp reference
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: docstrings and elisp reference |
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Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:10:32 -0400 |
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> 2) my remark about javadoc was not intended to suggest a
> replacement of the current documentation, but to have a document
> that has all the docstring information (Emacs API) in one
> place. It would be an alternative to the info system, with exactly
> the same contents. It would be a great tool to find API
> information and also very practical to check if the rules defined
> in the GNU Coding Standards are respected.
All the doc strings are found together in one place: Emacs.
That's a program, not a document. But why in practice would it be
better to have them all in one document?
It should not be hard to write a Lisp program which will write
that document into a file, straight from Emacs.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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