Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

[Juri Linkov]

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Since `default' is a keyword in C, `defaults' is a good replacement.
>
> `default' is special cased: you can spell it `defalt' in the C code and
> still get `DEFAULT' in the doc string.

Thanks for the hint.  Now I see that make-docfile explicitly converts
`defalt' to `default' in docstrings.  It's strange that no one function
in Emacs uses this trick for the `default'-like arguments.

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Juri Linkov
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