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bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:29:38 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: laszlomail@protonmail.com, 46702@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:15:03 +0100
>
> > The "How to resize mini-windows..." part begins "out of the blue".
> > It's actually incorrect English (incomplete sentence), AFAIK. It
> > reads okay-ish when the first line is alone, or when the text follows
> > some heading, like "Documentation:", but that is gone now.
>
> I don't think the "Documentation:" line helps much here, though. It's
> just an awkward first line.
I didn't say we should reinstate that line, did I?
> But even if the buffer started with:
>
> resize-mini-windows is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
>
> How to resize mini-windows (the minibuffer and the echo area).
> A value of nil means don’t automatically resize mini-windows.
>
> It'd still be an awkward doc string, because it's just an awkward
> semi-sentence.
Which is why I said we may wish rewriting it (and others like it, of
which we have quite a few, I think).
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, (continued)
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Peter Dean, 2021/02/22
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/22
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/24
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Peter Dean, 2021/02/24
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/24
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/24
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/24
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/25
- bug#46702: Link symbol name in Help,
Eli Zaretskii <=