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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	38796@debbugs.gnu.org, uyennhi.qm@gmail.com
Subject: bug#38796: 26.3; `view-lossage': Use a variable for the lossage limit
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:54:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e30775-94b9-4663-a823-296bad355dcf@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eenygyrx.fsf@gnus.org>

> I thought it sounded quite natural to use the same mechanism to switch
> lossage logging off.  `(update-lossage-size 0)' seems like a natural
> thing to do to have no lossage.

FWIW, I said the same thing:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38796#28

It's not unusual or weird for a zero-valued size
parameter to have such an effect. 

> >     Users can still safely modify the lossage limit with the
> >     command `update-lossage-size'.  For convenience, add
> >     a function `lossage-size' to return the current limit.
> 
> Hm...  other functions use the convention of having a zero-parameter
> function return the data, and having a parameter to set it.  So
> (lossage-size 500) could set it and (lossage-size) could return the
> current size?

FWIW, most `set-*' functions are commands.
And a command is what we should shoot for here.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-29 17:04 bug#38796: 26.3; `view-lossage': Use a variable for the lossage limit Drew Adams
2019-12-29 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-29 17:34   ` Drew Adams
2020-06-26 21:58   ` Tino Calancha
2020-06-27  8:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-28 16:55       ` Tino Calancha
2020-06-28 18:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-28 20:01           ` Drew Adams
2020-06-28 21:52           ` Tino Calancha
2020-06-29  0:05             ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 21:24             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-22 22:54               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-08-27 21:28               ` Tino Calancha
2020-08-28  6:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-04  9:31                   ` Tino Calancha
2020-09-04 12:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 12:29                       ` Tino Calancha
2020-09-17 14:35                         ` Tino Calancha

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