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bug#38736: 26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: bug#38736: 26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:24:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Like I said: eval's doc string documents this feature

I don't understand that comment either, did you mean `prin1'?

> you just looked for the documentation in the wrong place (and still
> found it, albeit through a long path).  So I see nothing to be done
> here, and I'm closing this bug report.

I can agree that what we have is acceptable.

But in this sentence in the docstring of `message':

"The first argument is a format control string [...]"

"format" could get quoted so that it gets transformed into a link to the
`format' help page - right?

Michael.





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