GNU bug report logs - #38736
26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.

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Message #22 received at 38736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 38736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#38736: 26.3; ellipsis in `*Messages*', doc of `format' etc.
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 04:24:07 +0100

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

> Like I said: eval's doc string documents this feature

I don't understand that comment either, did you mean `prin1'?

> you just looked for the documentation in the wrong place (and still
> found it, albeit through a long path).  So I see nothing to be done
> here, and I'm closing this bug report.

I can agree that what we have is acceptable.

But in this sentence in the docstring of `message':

"The first argument is a format control string [...]"

"format" could get quoted so that it gets transformed into a link to the
`format' help page - right?

Michael.

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