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#15239: 24.3.50; doc string of `fringe-styles' Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64b1e984-a1b7-4ad7-9f1c-261abe9af91c@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378067438 4074 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2013 20:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:30:38 +0000 (UTC) To: 15239@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 01 22:30:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEIA-0000F6-4h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 22:30:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEI9-0003kR-Cj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHq-0003jQ-09 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHf-0006e7-Oq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHf-0006e1-L3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHc-0004j3-SE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:05 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:30:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 15239 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.137806740018123 (code B ref -1); Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Sep 2013 20:30:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35513 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHY-0004iE-08 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36819) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHV-0004i0-0r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHF-0006JE-Pg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:42739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEHF-0006J8-MY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEH7-0003dr-3R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEGy-0006EW-HQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:18023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGEGy-0006ER-9v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 16:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r81KTM8m006985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:29:23 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r81KTLhn020013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:29:22 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt105.oracle.com (abhmt105.oracle.com [141.146.116.57]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r81KTLLb016148 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 20:29:21 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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:77870 Archived-At: Unless I'm missing something, this doc string seems wrong on several counts. And it is important because it is referred to by the doc of various fringe functions and variables, including `fringe-mode' itself. 1. The doc says that an alist element "has the form (NAME . WIDTH), where NAME is a mnemonic fringe mode name (a symbol)". Wrong. NAME is *NOT* a symbol. Presumably this wants instead to say that NAME is a symbol name. But why it would want to say that here is not clear anyway. 2. The doc says that "WIDTH is one of the following:" followed by this: "a cons cell (LEFT . RIGHT), where LEFT and RIGHT are respectively the left and right fringe widths in pixels, or nil (meaning to disable that fringe)." Wrong again. `nil' for LEFT or RIGHT does *NOT* mean to "disable that fringe". It means to "use the default width (8 pixels)", the same thing `nil' means as a non-cons value for WIDTH, but in this case only for "that fringe". Again, unless I'm missing something. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2013-08-23 on ODIEONE Bzr revision: 113986 rgm@gnu.org-20130823185841-zoy6h1qk433ibrlf Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --prefix=3D/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=3Dyes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=3D-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=3D-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib CPPFLAGS=3D-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'