changeset 64609:68b56bb47e55

(Autoload): Make the `doctor' example be consistent with what's in current loaddefs.el. Describe the "fn" magic in the usage portion of the doc string.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:22:25 +0000
parents 4d62b8f93b0a
children 06bf5258607d
files lispref/loading.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/loading.texi	Sat Jul 23 07:50:27 2005 +0000
+++ b/lispref/loading.texi	Sat Jul 23 10:22:25 2005 +0000
@@ -481,17 +481,22 @@
 Here's what that produces in @file{loaddefs.el}:
 
 @smallexample
-(autoload 'doctor "doctor" "\
-Switch to *doctor* buffer and start giving psychotherapy."
-  t)
+(autoload (quote doctor) "doctor" "\
+Switch to *doctor* buffer and start giving psychotherapy.
+
+\(fn)" t nil)
 @end smallexample
 
 @noindent
+@cindex @code{fn} in function's documentation string
 The backslash and newline immediately following the double-quote are a
 convention used only in the preloaded uncompiled Lisp files such as
 @file{loaddefs.el}; they tell @code{make-docfile} to put the
 documentation string in the @file{etc/DOC} file.  @xref{Building Emacs}.
-See also the commentary in @file{lib-src/make-docfile.c}.
+See also the commentary in @file{lib-src/make-docfile.c}.  @samp{(fn)}
+in the usage part of the documentation string is replaced with the
+function's name when the various help functions (@pxref{Help
+Functions}) display it.
 
   If you write a function definition with an unusual macro that is not
 one of the known and recognized function definition methods, use of an