GNU bug report logs - #44858
[PATCH] Make byte-compiler warn about wide docstrings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:37:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 44858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44858: [PATCH] Make byte-compiler warn about wide docstrings
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:19:53 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:36:34 -0800
> 
> For `substitute-command-keys', it would be nice to get it to work, but I
> don't think we can know the values of keymaps at compile-time.  Possibly
> there is a good solution for this, but I couldn't find it.

How about some simplified heuristics, like assume that the expansion
takes no more than N characters (where N could be something like 5)?
This should work in, like, 80% of cases, I think.
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