GNU bug report logs - #30068
26.0; REGRESSION: no doc for `x-display-pixel-*'

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:12:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 30068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: 30068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30068: 26.0; REGRESSION: no doc for `x-display-pixel-*'
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:25:11 +0200

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:19:18 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 30068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> > Cc: 30068 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:26:02 -0500
> > 
> > Keep the real doc only in xfns.c, makes the others just say <skip>, or
> > <see:xfns.c>, and change Fsnarf_documentation to respect <skip>.
> 
> Sounds fine.  Are there any downsides?

Btw, there's another, perhaps easier alternative: have only one
definition of the function, with the single copy of the doc string,
and then make it call the platform-dependent parts on the C level.
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