Re: Line numbers in doc snarf comments

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
> Sender: address@hidden
> 
> Currently, the doc snarf output in libguile/guile.texi includes
> comments saying the file and line number whence each docstring was
> snarfed.  For example:
> 
> @c snarfed from alist.c:58
> 
> A copy of guile.texi (doc/maint/guile.texi) gets checked into CVS as
> part of the automatic doc updates mechanism, and the existence of the
> line numbers (which often change) causes a rather unnecessary amount
> of CVS protocol traffic.
> 
> So, does anyone mind if I change the doc snarf jobs to omit the line
> numbers?

Maybe the line numbers could be useful when trying to fix errors in
the docstrings.  Could you maybe add a switch or something so one can
switch the line numbers on conditionally?

Except for that I have no objections.

'martin