GNU bug report logs - #50222
Advising a function pollutes its docstring

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Clément Pit-Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 03:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 50222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#50222: Advising a function pollutes its docstring
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:15:03 +0200

Clément Pit-Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com> writes:

> It would be nice to place the bit of text about advice somewhere else
> — maybe with the indented paragraph of the docs that says when the
> function was introduced and which group contains the relevant docs?

I don't think putting it in the indented bit will work well, because the
advice may have multi-line doc strings...

So changed it to just put the advice doc at the end of the doc string in
Emacs 28.

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