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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22206: 25.1.50; doc string of `define-minor-mode'
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:11:14 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65b64917-fae0-484b-8342-e73a88d2d4d9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5674616F.7000103@yandex.ru>

> > What else could it possibly be, except a string?
> 
> A form in the format described in mode-line-format. And that works,
> actually, so I'm not sure we should document it to be more limited.

IMO, we should document what it needs to be.  If it can be more than
a string, then we should document just what it can be.  And in that
case the manual (which states that it is a string) should likewise
be updated to say what the value can be.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-18 17:52 bug#22206: 25.1.50; doc string of `define-minor-mode' Drew Adams
2015-12-18 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-18 19:41   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-12-18 19:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-18 20:11     ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <<ff72fa4b-8ee6-4671-891e-69131e00eb16@default>
     [not found] ` <<83d1u3wo20.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-18 20:09   ` Drew Adams

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