Re: Tick Reduction

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> My vote would be for expanding the docstring syntax to also handle these
> things, and I think it'd be natural to base it on Org-mode.  We might
> also want some other way to mark things as monospace that is not `foo'
> (in which case it will be linked if there is such a Lisp symbol, which
> is not correct e.g. when referring to the executables "man" or "whois").

I think it would be natural to do all "strings" in doc strings as
monospace, though.

> 3. A code fragment would look like:
>
>     #+begin_src
>     (defun foo () ...)
>     #+end_src

I think going full Org in the doc strings would be excessive -- it's
pretty easy to detect Emacs Lisp.

But, sure, moving towards a more Org-like syntax might make sense.

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