GNU bug report logs - #41531
27.0.91; Better handle asynchronous eldoc backends

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Reported by: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 17:05:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.91

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, andreyk.mad <at> gmail.com, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#41531: 27.0.91; Better handle asynchronous eldoc backends
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 10:37:50 +0100
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Ah, ok I see what you mean.

I didn't feel it was necessary to enter into details since it is backwards
compatible. But I can add some things to mention that async is now
supported in a "first class" sense.

João

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 10:31 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 10:21:43 +0100
> > Cc: 41531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
> andreyk.mad <at> gmail.com,
> >       dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> >
> > I'm surprised the NEWS entry I had written got lost. In the git rebasing,
> > maybe.
>
> There is a NEWS entry in the branch, but it only says this:
>
>   -*** 'eldoc-documentation-function' is now a user option.
>   -Modes should use the new hook instead of this user option to register
>   -their backends.
>   +*** New user option 'eldoc-documentation-strategy'
>   +The built-in choices available for this user option let users compose
>   +the results of 'eldoc-documentation-functions' in various ways.  The
>   +user option replaces 'eldoc-documentation-function', which is now
>   +obsolete.
>
> I don't see how by reading this anyone could understand that the
> change allows significant new functionality.  maybe you wrote more
> than that, and it did get lost somehow?
>
> (FTR, I did "git diff ...origin/scratch/eldoc-async" to see the
> changes on the branch.)
>
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