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bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:30:45 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:27 -0400
>
> > I think, as a temporary solution, we should make the docstrings of all
> > the affected functions and variables the same. If necessary, they can
> > say somehthing like, "On Windows, this does X. On Nexstep, this does
> > Y", and so on.
>
> That sounds OK as a quick temporary solution. The longer-term solution
> is to say that such variables defined in various places are bugs.
> I.e. the definition should be moved to a common file.
Sorry, I don't follow. Each instance of the definitions of these
identically-named symbols is a different platform-specific
implementation of the same API. Sometimes, one implementation is in
C, the other in Lisp. How can they be moved to the same file? What
am I missing?
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Glenn Morris, 2009/07/20
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- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/20
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/21
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/22
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/22
- bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/22