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eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"

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Message #68 received at 27229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com, 27229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27229: eldoc wrong highlighting for "when"
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 13:24:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So you are saying that we cannot use "(fn ..." because eldoc doesn't
> like that?  Doesn't sound reasonable to me.  eldoc is a minor, albeit
> important, mode; it isn't right for a minor mode to dictate our
> documentation formats.

No, I'm saying that the (fn ... in when/unless was wrong in any case, and
shouldn't have been there.  Since we don't use that in the hundreds of
other &rest body macros, it serves to confuse the users who will wonder
why when/unless look odd.

Like I said, if we want to change how we present &rest body to the
users, then we should do so for all of these macros, and not just two.

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