Re: Emacs documentation sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:13:21 +0200
> 
> But DOC strings are not even loaded _until_ you look at
> them explicitly.

You seem to forget about the `apropos-*' commands (which were the
reason for this thread in the first place).

> So your claim that DOC strings have to be kept terse for memory
> conversation reasons is plain and unadulterated nonsense.  And this
> utterly silly smokescreen followup thread (where you, quite prudently,
> snip out the original _relevant_ wrong claim of yours time and again
> in order to argue some less embarrassing points) does not change that.

I admire your argument culture and style, David.

> Again, here is your quote which started this:
> 
>     Doc strings not always target newbies, because they cannot be too
>     wordy (due to considerations of memory footprint of the running
>     Emacs).
> 
> Please don't omit this quote if you feel you want to continue to
> pretend defending it.

Done.