From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4257: Documentation for where-is-preferred-modifier is obscure
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:24:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090825162444.GA8178@muc.de> (raw)
The doc string for `where-is-preferred-modifier' is
where-is-preferred-modifier is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is nil
Documentation:
Preferred modifier to use for `where-is'.
When a single binding is requested, `where-is' will return one that
uses this modifier if possible. If nil, or if no such binding exists,
bindings using keys without modifiers (or only with meta) will be
preferred.
. This leaves the user having to guess what a "modifier for `where-is'"
is. This is bad.
The same obscurity exists in NEWS. This is somewhat bad.
The variable is not documented in the Emacs manual. This might be bad.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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2009-08-25 16:24 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-07-12 21:13 ` bug#4257: Documentation for where-is-preferred-modifier is obscure Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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