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Re: Emacs documentation sources


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:17:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:53:00 +0200
>> 
>> Uh what?  Doc strings are not placed in the memory of Emacs except for
>> those of uncompiled Lisp code.
>
> You mean, when I'm looking at a buffer that displays the doc string of
> something, that doc string is not in memory?

Only as long as the help buffer persists with this content.  Do you
really claim the ephemeral size of the help buffer to be an important
consideration concerning the size of DOC strings?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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