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Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:23:08 -0400 |
> When a variable is obsolete, the help info looks ugly because the "not
> documented as a variable" text is not capitalized after a full stop.
>
> Example from local-write-file-hooks:
>
> > Documentation:
> > This variable is obsolete since 21.4.
> > Use `write-file-functions' instead.
> > not documented as a variable.
>
> Perhaps it is better to put the obsolescence info after the variable
> documentation, unless the current point was purposelly chosen to
> highlight the fact that the variable is obsolete.
How about just capitalizing the `not' ?
After all, even without the obsolete stuff it deserves a capital, doesn't it?
Stefan
- Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/06/24
- Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/25
- Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/06/27
- Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable, Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/27
- Re: Lowercase text after full stop on describe-variable, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/06/27