Subject: bug#71720: [PATCH] Do not prematurely truncate python eldoc string

From: kobarity <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:47:58 +0900

James Thomas wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:16:51 +0900
> >> From: kobarity <[email-masked]>
> >> Cc: [email-masked]
> >>
> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> >
> >> > kobarity, any comments?
> >>
> >> I agree with this fix.  For those who want the same behavior as
> >> before, setting eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p to nil should be
> >> sufficient.  It might be better to make this change known in etc/NEWS,
> >> though.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > James, can you add a NEWS entry and resubmit?
> 
> How about this?

> +*** 'eldoc' no longer truncates to a single line by default.
> +Previously, the entire docstring was not available to eldoc, which made
> +'eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p' ineffective. The old behaviour may be
> +kept by setting that.
> +

Thanks, I think the content is perfect, but from other examples, it
might be better to have two spaces after the period.