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Re: docstrings and elisp reference


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:03:04 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> And yet, the Elisp manual documents a large number of functions and
> variables / options in a format that is very reminiscent of doc strings and
> which provides basically the same information.

Agreed.  And I also think this is a problem.
>From where I stand, the way to fix it is:
- Better integration between the manual browser and the docstring
  browser, so you can click on a function/variable name in the manual to
  get to its docstring and you can easily jump from a docstring to the
  relevant section of the manual.
- Remove the redundant var/fun documentation from the manual (this is
  a tedious job: there is some redundance but it's not systematic, so
  we can't just do this removal systematically).
- Come up with a way to re-add those var/fun documentation into the
  printed manual (e.g. by adding to the Texinfo source external
  references to docstrings, which are then processed by now ad-hoc
  script).


        Stefan




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