Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH] When deleting in bookmark menu, prompt for confirmation.

[Karl Fogel]

On 09 May 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> > Cc: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>, 
> > drew.adams@oracle.com,
> >   larsi@gnus.org,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 
> >   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 13:37:52 -0500
> >
> > My inclination would be to do this by having 
> > `bookmark-bmenu-load' 
> > just refer readers to `bookmark-load', and then improving the 
> > latter's doc string.  That way if future changes are made to 
> > `bookmark-load's behavior, we wouldn't need to remember to 
> > update 
> > `bookmark-bmenu-load's doc string too.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I'll have thoughts when I see the result ;-)

Heh, fair enough.  My inquiry was about the general practice of 
having one function's doc string referring out to another 
function's.  But it sounds like you have no objection to that, and 
neither do I.

If the attached doc patch looks sensible, I'll commit it.

Best regards,
-Karl

0001-Improve-bookmark-bmenu-load-doc-string.patch
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