Mercurial > emacs
changeset 16671:9fa09185bca0
Explain how disabled commands' doc strings are displayed.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:36:22 +0000 |
| parents | 37fa6003964d |
| children | 1facf218a14f |
| files | lispref/tips.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/tips.texi Wed Dec 11 21:06:53 1996 +0000 +++ b/lispref/tips.texi Thu Dec 12 05:36:22 1996 +0000 @@ -403,6 +403,12 @@ starting double-quote is not part of the string! @item +When the user tries to use a disabled command, Emacs displays just the +first paragraph of its documentation string---everything through the +first blank line. If you wish, you can choose which information to +include before the first blank line so as to make this display useful. + +@item A variable's documentation string should start with @samp{*} if the variable is one that users would often want to set interactively. If the value is a long list, or a function, or if the variable would be set