Re: function doc string display
Richard Stallman <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:57:58 -0400
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> Much better!
I hope this change will be implemented.
And while you are at it, can you also move the
> mostly useless function metadata to the end? For example:
> line-beginning-position is a primitive-function in ‘C source code’.
> The sentence is not grammatically correct and it is almost never
> relevant where a function is defined or what "categories" it belongs
> to.
If most people share your feeling, we could omit that info. But I
think that it will be useful to a considerable fraction of users.
Where the function is defined is pertinent if you want to look at the
source code.
At that point, it may matter to you what language it is written in.
(Perhaps you know how to work on Emacs Lisp code but not on C code.)
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