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Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
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Joost Kremers |
Subject: |
Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:49:01 +0100 |
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On Sat, Mar 05 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Doc strings should never be wrapped with the likes of M-q. For
> starters, this can make the first line include more than one
> sentence.
IME, if you hit M-q in a doc string, the first line isn't changed.
Perhaps that only works when point is not on the first line, though.
> More generally, there are already constructs we recognize
> in doc strings that produce longer or shorter strings when displayed,
> so M-q is just not up to the job, and shouldn't be used.
But there's no real alternative, is there? IOW, you might as well use
M-q, because if you use something like \\[my-function], you never know
if that'll display as a short key binding, a long key binding, or as
`M-x my-function', which can actually be very long.
(I guess the best way would be to custom-wrap doc strings before
displaying them, after constructs such as \\[...] have been resolved.)
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, (continued)
Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/05
- RE: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Drew Adams, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/05
Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters,
Joost Kremers <=
RE: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Drew Adams, 2016/03/06