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From: jak@cs.brown.edu (Jak Kirman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Complex documentation strings
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Date: 28 Dec 90 21:45:13 GMT
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[Apologies to local users for the repost; gnus uses local as the default
distribution.  Sigh]

Using gnuemacs 18.55, I often want to do the following sort of thing:
 
(defun foo-plus ()
  (concat (documentation 'foo) " added some functionality")
  ;...
)

However, it seems that unless the documentation string is a literal,
emacs does not take it as the documentation.

It is fairly easy to imagine wanting documentation strings depending on
some run-time variable such as the machine or window-system type, in
which case hardwiring the string would not be appropriate at all.

Does anyone know of any way around this problem?

                                Jak                            jak@cs.brown.edu
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