Subject: Re: bug#71720: [PATCH] Do not prematurely truncate python eldoc string
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: James Thomas <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:56:31 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: James Thomas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:32:19 +0530
> 
> kobarity wrote:
> 
> > James Thomas wrote:
> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:16:51 +0900
> >> >> From: kobarity <[email-masked]>
> >> >> Cc: [email-masked]
> >> >>
> >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > kobarity, any comments?
> >> >>
> >> >> I agree with this fix.  For those who want the same behavior as
> >> >> before, setting eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p to nil should be
> >> >> sufficient.  It might be better to make this change known in etc/NEWS,
> >> >> though.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> >
> >> > James, can you add a NEWS entry and resubmit?
> >>
> >> How about this?
> >
> >> +*** 'eldoc' no longer truncates to a single line by default.
> >> +Previously, the entire docstring was not available to eldoc, which made
> >> +'eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p' ineffective. The old behaviour may be
> >> +kept by setting that.
> >> +
> >
> > Thanks, I think the content is perfect, but from other examples, it
> > might be better to have two spaces after the period.
> 
> Fixed:

Thanks, installed on the emacs-30 branch, and closing the bug.