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emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column: Why?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column: Why? |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:40:18 -0700 |
emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column is either the Elisp manual or the
Emacs manual.
Why does this variable exist? Doesn't buffer-local variable
fill-column do everything that is needed? Shouldn't users just be able
to set fill-column in an Emacs-Lisp buffer and have that DTRT (even do
what emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column does, if that is superior)?
I was surprised, and other users will also be surprised (and annoyed?)
to find that `C-u C-x f' does not affect M-q in Emacs-Lisp doc
strings.
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Dired by name
Minor modes in effect:
encoded-kbd-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>
Recent messages:
(C:\Emacs-22-2006-07-19-Fran\bin\emacs.exe -q --no-site-file --debug-init
C:\drews-lisp-20)
Loading encoded-kb...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading dired...
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- emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column: Why?,
Drew Adams <=