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RE: Fill paragraph in doc string and \\{somekeymap}
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Fill paragraph in doc string and \\{somekeymap} |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:22:43 -0800 |
> >> Would it not be nice if \\[keymap] and \\{keymap} behaved as paragraph
> >> breaks in doc strings?
> >
> > No, certainly not. I cannot imagine why that would be imposed.
> They should
> > have no effect on formatting (beyond what they do now).
> >
> > There are other ways to insert a paragraph break. If you want a
> > syntax-independent way to do that in a doc string, that might be a
> > reasonable request, but, please, let's not combine paragraph syntax with
> > \\[...],\\{...}, or \\<...>.
>
> I was mostly thinking of filling.
Filling too should be separate from \\[...] etc. In my own uses of these,
for instance, I don't think there is one occurrence where I want to fill the
text of the current paragraph. Why assume that there is a connection between
these two things?