From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8682: 24.0.50; doc strings of `isearch-mode', `isearch-forward', etc. Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:12:02 -0700 Message-ID: <07DD6196F9C34A72821A336E6764639D@us.oracle.com> References: <3CD827EDF5994E3DB18AC6E3A422D7CE@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305659596 17074 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2011 19:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8682@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 21:13:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhb-0006LM-P5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 21:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhb-0006K4-8C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhX-0006JM-Ek for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhW-0003dA-Jd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhW-0003d0-Hr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPhW-0007kL-6M; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8682 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8682-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8682.130565954429732 (code B ref 8682); Tue, 17 May 2011 19:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8682) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 May 2011 19:12:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPgu-0007jV-AP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMPgr-0007jI-Sa for 8682@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p4HJCDPB000531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:15 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4HJCCie002585 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt005.oracle.com (abhmt005.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p4HJC6NU002091; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:12:06 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.39.125) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 17 May 2011 12:12:06 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcwUuGnk34o00TTnTfSZmO8pUCwfBAADb2EA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4DD2C890.004F:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:13:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46522 Archived-At: > > If you don't like `-P' because you think it too closely conveys > > "predicate" (and you don't want to consider a variable as a nullary > > predicate), then choose another naming convention for this. It is > > quite helpful to suggest by a parameter's name that it represents > > a truth value: nil/non-nil. > > `forward' works just fine, `recursive' as well. > I agree that `regexp' isn't quite as clear because it's a > substantive so > it could also be understood to carry a regular expression, so you may > prefer `use-regexp' or something like that. No, the point was to have a convention that suggests the Boolean-valuedness irrespective of the rest of the parameter name. Anyway, this is not the most important part of this bug report.