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| -rw-r--r-- | lib-src/make-docfile.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib-src/make-docfile.c b/lib-src/make-docfile.c index 55920ce6dc4..8e830dbd99f 100644 --- a/lib-src/make-docfile.c +++ b/lib-src/make-docfile.c @@ -544,13 +544,16 @@ scan_c_file (filename, mode) When we find that, we save it for the following defining-form, and we use that instead of reading a doc string within that defining-form. - For defun, defmacro, and autoload, we know how to skip over the arglist. For defvar, defconst, and fset we skip to the docstring with a kludgy formatting convention: all docstrings must appear on the same line as the initial open-paren (the one in column zero) and must contain a backslash - and a double-quote immediately after the initial double-quote. No newlines + and a newline immediately after the initial double-quote. No newlines must appear between the beginning of the form and the first double-quote. - The only source file that must follow this convention is loaddefs.el; aside + For defun, defmacro, and autoload, we know how to skip over the + arglist, but the doc string must still have a backslash and newline + immediately after the double quote. + The only source files that must follow this convention are preloaded + uncompiled ones like loaddefs.el and bindings.el; aside from that, it is always the .elc file that we look at, and they are no problem because byte-compiler output follows this convention. The NAME and DOCSTRING are output. |