manual is not organized in that fashion; it is organized in terms of
topics of discussion.
+ For commands to access documentation strings, see @ref{Help, ,
+Help, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.
+
@menu
* Documentation Basics:: Good style for doc strings.
Where to put them. How Emacs stores them.
to the keys for related commands and be accurate even when a user
rearranges the key bindings. (@xref{Keys in Documentation}.)
+@vindex emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column
+ Emacs Lisp mode fills documentation strings to the width
+controlled by @code{emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column}.
+
In Emacs Lisp, a documentation string is accessible through the
function or variable that it describes:
documentation string from the appropriate file; this is transparent to
the user.
- For information on the uses of documentation strings, see @ref{Help, ,
-Help, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.
-
@c Wordy to prevent overfull hbox. --rjc 15mar92
The @file{emacs/lib-src} directory contains two utilities that you can
use to print nice-looking hardcopy for the file