From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 3395@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 22:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1EF6C8.9020601@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D8BCAFE20B943AEB749A91BCDF19420@us.oracle.com>
>> > This is not about changing the command. It is simply about
>> > removing the useless colon. Is that too hard?
>>
>> It might be.
>
> Then I guess you'll have to mark it too hard to fix, and move on.
You have to find someone who agrees that this is a bug.
>> Hence code like
>> (unless (string-match ":" format)
>> (error "Bad format"))
>>
>> in cus-edit.el is something you understand and can explain.
>
> I don't understand the question or comment.
Obviously because you didn't try to.
> What's the point?
That colons sometimes serve additional purposes in custom buffers
besides of being displayed as visible characters.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 23:38 bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name Drew Adams
2009-05-26 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:15 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:43 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 17:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 20:40 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2009-05-28 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 16:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 17:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 17:19 ` Drew Adams
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