Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * David Kastrup (2007-10-03) writes: > >> Hm? Just explaining the available semantics by referring to the actual >> values is not actually doing anything different. While I agree that >> one can use such a customize-only explanation in the manual, I think >> that the DOC string for a variable should help with understanding the >> code, not just the customization. > > The doc string shows up in the customization buffer. And that's where I > wanted to have a description for the user, not the developer. I could > perhaps as a compromise add the developer-aimed documentation as a > comment to the defcustom code.
It is not going to help the developer using C-h v when looking at the code using the variable. Nobody is interested in the source code of the defcustom or would think of looking there for the relevant information. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ bug-auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
