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Re: Doc strings starting with a line break
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Richard Copley |
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Re: Doc strings starting with a line break |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:06:29 +0100 |
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. For `isearch-forward' it seems unnecessary but it
has been that way for 24 years. They do things differently
there :)