bug#65790: 29.1; "docstring wider than 80 characters" when there is no docstring

[Damien Cassou]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, it would be nice not to get that warning.  I fixed many such
> problems when I first added the warning about long docstrings.
>
> Patches welcome.


The only patch I can think of would change the macro so that the
docstring references each name on a line of its own. This way, we would
only get a warning if the name itself is more than 80 characters. Would
that be a reasonable patch for you?


> PS. As a work-around, you can set `byte-compile-docstring-max-column'.

Thank you for this.

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Damien Cassou

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