Subject: Re: bug#35228: 26.1; Please consider adding a doc string for `extended-command-history'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:45:36 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> How's the following?

[...]

> -(defvar extended-command-history nil)
> +(defvar extended-command-history nil
> +  "History list for extended command name arguments.
> +It is used by `execute-extended-command', and its maximum length
> +is determined by the value of `history-length', which see.")

I kinda think this is unnecessary -- we have a gazillion history
variables in Emacs, and adding doc strings to them all is pretty
pointless -- it's self-evident what they're used for.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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