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28.0.50; "docstring wider than 80" misfire

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 49007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49007: 28.0.50; "docstring wider than 80" misfire
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:34:11 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> So perhaps the correct fix here is to have the docstring width checker
>> ignore those parts?
>
> Indeed: the (fn ...) on the last line of a docstring is not really part
> of the text, it's just a chunk of data that happens to be stored using
> its printed representation (I'm in part to blame for that design choice,
> and I don't really like it either, but here we are).

No matter where we go, there we are.

I've now pushed a fix for this to Emacs 28 that fixes the test case.

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