Re: eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc

[Frank Haun]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:16:31 +0100, João Távora wrote:

> Here's a patch that should fix this, by bringing back the function to
> eldoc and marking it obsolete.  I'd of course much prefer if Elpy starts
> using the new features of eldoc-documentation-functions instead, if
> indeed it must be made to work with Emacs 28.  The bits of that
> variable's docstring concerning the `:THING` and `:FACE` keyword
> arguments should, in principle, be enough to do the same as the defunct
> eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc.  If they're not, then it's something to
> be iterated in eldoc.el.

Someone made an elpy issue of the missing eldoc-docstring-format-sym-doc
function:

  https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy/issues/1823

I've pointed to:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-07/msg00584.html

Frank