Re: Doc strings starting with a line break

[Tino Calancha]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Richard Copley wrote:

> On 18 September 2016 at 11:51, Tino Calancha <address@hidden> wrote:
> > i am wondering what could be the reason for some doc strings
> > starting with a break line.
> > For instance, see `isearch-forward' or `looking-at-p'.
>
> The newline is escaped so it's not part of the docstring. For
> `looking-at-p' it allows the following line of code to fit into 80
> characters.
I guess would fit without that trick: i count 77 characters.
> For `isearch-forward' it seems unnecessary but it
> has been that way for 24 years. They do things differently
> there :)
I see.  Indeed, it's being a long time.
I will accept these strings as a cargo cult.