[Emacs-diffs] trunk r116055: * simple.el (define-alternatives): Fix docstring by advising

[Bastien Guerry]

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revno: 116055
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Bastien Guerry <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Fri 2014-01-17 14:05:09 +0100
message:
  * simple.el (define-alternatives): Fix docstring by advising
  developers to (defvar COMMAND-alternatives).
modified:
  lisp/ChangeLog                 changelog-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1432
  lisp/simple.el                 simple.el-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-403

=== modified file 'lisp/ChangeLog'
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog    2014-01-17 03:15:02 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog    2014-01-17 13:05:09 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-01-17  Bastien Guerry  <address@hidden>
+
+       * simple.el (define-alternatives): Fix docstring by advising
+       developers to (defvar COMMAND-alternatives).
+
 2014-01-17  Dmitry Gutov  <address@hidden>
 
        * progmodes/ruby-mode.el (ruby-alignable-keywords): New constant.

=== modified file 'lisp/simple.el'
--- a/lisp/simple.el    2014-01-14 22:30:42 +0000
+++ b/lisp/simple.el    2014-01-17 13:05:09 +0000
@@ -7666,8 +7666,10 @@
 and overwrites the previous choice.
 
 The variable `COMMAND-alternatives' contains an alist with
-alternative implementations of COMMAND.  `define-alternatives'
-does not have any effect until this variable is set.
+alternative implementations of COMMAND.  Developers should
+use (defvar COMMAND-alternatives) to declare this variable
+after they write (define-alternatives COMMAND), otherwise
+the variable will not be handled by programs like etags.
 
 CUSTOMIZATIONS, if non-nil, should be composed of alternating
 `defcustom' keywords and values to add to the declaration of