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bug#57890: 28.1; Doc string of `initial-frame-alist'


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#57890: 28.1; Doc string of `initial-frame-alist'
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:38:34 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:22:05 +0000
> 
> The doc string seems to suggest that the option, or its use, somehow
> depends on X resources:

And it does.  So I don't understand the complaint.

> That text is not introduced by anything saying, e.g., IF you are
> using X resources or by saying that this 3-step process is
> applicable only if you can use X resources.  At least some of it
> doesn't make sense without X resources, AFAIK.

Doc strings are not nodes in a manual, they cannot have introductions
and terminology explanations.  They are succinct and assume some level
of general knowledge.





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