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Re: dynamical parts of a docstring
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Klaus Berndl |
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Re: dynamical parts of a docstring |
Date: |
22 Oct 2002 17:22:57 +0200 |
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On 22 Oct 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de> writes:
> > Is it possible to add some elisp-code to a docstring which is evaluated at
> > the time the docstring is displayed (e.g. by calling `describe-variable'
> > or `customize-option') so the result of this code is added to the
> > docstring at display-time??
>
> Right now, no. Someone requested the same kind of feature a year or two
> ago, and a few days ago such a feature could have been used in order
> not to duplicate the documentation of directory-files.
>
> I think I even coded up a hack that allowed embedded elisp in docstrings
> that looked like:
>
> Call a function and return \\\\(fun arg1 arg2).
Sounds good, this would be exactly what I'm looking for!
>
> but I think I had some problems because the escape sequence accidentally
> appeared in a few pre-existing docstrings or somesuch.
Thanks for your prompt answer! OK, there seem to be some backward-compatibility
issues for this feature. Nevertheless: Is there any hope for this feature
(maybe correcting these pre-existing dangerous doc-strings?) in near future?
Klaus
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