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From: Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
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Subject: d e s c r i b e - f u nc t i o n
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[This is a resend of a message sent to xemacs-beta and
bug-gnu-emacs: I guess smartlist(?) unsubscribed me from
xemacs-beta because of the substring "scribe" in the original
subject!]

I would like to suggest that `describe-function' ("help.el") be
modified so that it doesn't not put a ":" after the function name
in its output.  This is inconsistent because symbols can end in a
colon and adding a colon at the end of the symbol makes it harder
to access the function's symbol in the help buffer with
emacs-lisp-syntax.

I suggest in Emacs-20 changing ":" to " is" and in XEmacs-20
perhaps just removing the ":".

I would be happy to provide patches for the above minor change.

Jens Petersen
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Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
Home-Page: <http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~petersen/>

