Re: dynamic docstring in a function?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Kin" == Kin Cho <kin@dynarc.com> writes:
> by clicking the mouse on its name, etc...  These functions takes
> no arguments, but their behavior depend on global and environment
> variables.  In the same self-documenting spirit of emacs, I wanted
> document these functions using the actual values of the global
> and environment variables.

I have a similar situation and currently just refer the user to the relevant
variables.  I don't think the "nil docstring trick" is a good approach.
I'd rather see something along the lines of \\[...] for example
defining \\(...) as executing the so-introduced sexp and replacing it
with the returned value.


        Stefan