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bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terribl
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#12884: 24.2.50; defun*: argument lists in documentation look terrible |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:28:07 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > This looks terrible with all this #: and quote \, stuff.
>> Binding print-quoted makes sense to improve the quote/backquote syntax.
>> But I don't understand why we have those #: in there. I understand it's
>> there to say the symbols are not interned, but I don't understand why
>> they're not interned.
> See `cl--make-usage-args'. It upcases the names of the arguments and
> makes them a symbol again. The one who wrote that wanted that no new
> symbols are interned, and so used `make-symbol'. Dunno if there's a
> reason to do so.
Ah, yes of course.
I installed a patch similar to yours, except I didn't touch print-length
and print-level, since I can't think of a good reason to favor nil
for them.
Stefan