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Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this some
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Michael Welsh Duggan |
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Re: Double dashes in docstrings without surrounding space - is this something to address? |
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Mon, 28 May 2018 21:46:01 -0400 |
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Rocky Bernstein <address@hidden> writes:
> Recently it was pointed out to me that there are various docstrings that
> use -- without surrounding spaces as in this for upcase
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> The argument object is not altered--the value is a copy.
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> ^^^^^
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> You can find other examples in casefiddle.c and in some Emacs Lisp code as
> well like the docstring for comiint-scroll-show-maximum-output. Is this
> intentional, or accidental? Should it be changed?
Most likely intentional. It looks like it is trying to emulate an
em-dash. In a non-proportional font, it's probably as close as your
going to get.
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Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)