[issue1059] *args and **kwargs in function definitions

2007-08-30 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl added the comment: Lars Gustäbel schrieb: > Lars Gustäbel added the comment: > > Oh, I thought Emacs was an operating system, I didn't know you could > edit text files with it. You live and learn ;-) > > I suspected that this was intentional. If you make backslash escaping > option

[issue1059] *args and **kwargs in function definitions

2007-08-30 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl added the comment: Lars Gustäbel schrieb: > For example in tarfile.rst and logging.rst there are function > definitions using *args and/or **kwargs like: > > .. function:: debug(msg[, *args[, **kwargs]]) > > The * and ** should be escaped IMO, so that they are not mistaken as > re

[issue1059] *args and **kwargs in function definitions

2007-08-29 Thread Lars Gustäbel
New submission from Lars Gustäbel: For example in tarfile.rst and logging.rst there are function definitions using *args and/or **kwargs like: .. function:: debug(msg[, *args[, **kwargs]]) The * and ** should be escaped IMO, so that they are not mistaken as reStructuredText markup, which confus