GNU bug report logs - #43103
28.0.50; Default ElDoc composition strategy in Elisp mode (eldoc-documentation-strategy)

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Message #11 received at 43103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#43103: 28.0.50; Default ElDoc composition strategy in Elisp
 mode (eldoc-documentation-strategy)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:07:48 +0100

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

> How will the proposed change modify the behavior in the use case with
> which you started this message?

In the use case I started this message with, the user has enabled
Flymake.  Instead of seeing only the function signature in the echo area
-- and being denied the presumed Flymake diagnostic "beneath it" -- this
user would now see both items of information in two lines of said echo
area.

A similar reasoning applies to other situations with two competing
different sources of context or "at point" documentation.  Currently,
even without Flymake there are function signatures and variable
docstrings, for example.

João

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