Re: [Emacs-diffs] widen-limits c331b66: Implement buffer-widen-limits functionality

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:57:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> And the text about indentation and the use of sub-mode for only a given
> chunk of text in a buffer is incomprehensible without some explanation.
> Normally, a major mode, no matter whether it is derived from some other
> major mode, has its effect on the entire buffer.
> 
> It seems there is some non-negligible functionality/behavior/feature
> that has not been documented.  Not up to Emacs standards, it appears.
> 
> It looks like someone perhaps implemented something and just tossed
> some minimal doc into the manual, in the form of doc-string-like text
> for a couple functions.  Insufficient.

"Compliments" such as these for something that caused me a
considerable effort to produce where no documentation by the code
developers existed in the first place is a very efficient method of
convincing me never to make such efforts again.  Not for this
community, anyway.

Thanks a lot!