Re: doc strings that are too long

[Arne Jørgensen]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

F> On Mon, Nov 28 2005, Arne Jørgensen wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>> latex-inputenc-coding-alist
>>
>> I'm the author of this one. Attached is a patch that shortens the doc
>> string.
> [...]
>> --- lisp/international/latexenc.el   4 Jul 2005 17:22:27 -0000       1.9
>> +++ lisp/international/latexenc.el   28 Nov 2005 22:12:28 -0000
>> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
>>      ("next" . next) ; The Next encoding
>>      ("utf8" . utf-8)
>>      ("utf8x" . utf-8)) ; used by the Unicode LaTeX package
>> -  "Mapping from encoding names used by LaTeX's \"inputenc.sty\" to Emacs 
>> coding systems.
>> +  "Mapping from encodings used by LaTeX's \"inputenc.sty\" to Emacs coding 
>> systems.
>>  Used by the function `latexenc-find-file-coding-system'."
>>    :group 'files
>>    :group 'mule
>
> IIRC the first line should be even shorter (e.g. for the output of M-x
> apropos-variable RET -coding-alist RET'.  `M-x checkdoc-defun RET'
> still complains about it.

OK. I didn't know how short it was supposed to be.

> What about the following?
>
>   "Mapping from LaTeX encodings to Emacs coding systems.
> LaTeX encodings are specified with \"\\usepackage[encoding]{inputenc}\".
> Used by the function `latexenc-find-file-coding-system'."

Fine.

Kind regards,
-- 
Arne Jørgensen <http://arnested.dk/>