From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34749: 26.1; `delete-windows-on': (1) doc, (2) bug, (3) bug, (4) candidates Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:46:43 +0200 Message-ID: <8336nw807g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5C7E4BAB.3050508@gmx.at> <83mum5accd.fsf@gnu.org> <5C824BAC.4090907@gmx.at> <83lg1pa4oa.fsf@gnu.org> <5C82B9E1.1080302@gmx.at> <83zhq587g6.fsf@gnu.org> <5C837BD6.9010200@gmx.at> <83ef7g8gbc.fsf@gnu.org> <5C83BC9B.5020803@gmx.at> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="189777"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 34749@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 09 17:48:20 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8w-000nCU-Nl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 17:48:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8v-00081d-Pu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8m-0007zP-Ck for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8l-0006lQ-Ol for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:48:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8l-0006lF-Kk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f8k-0007ez-4I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:48:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34749 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34749-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34749.155215003029385 (code B ref 34749); Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34749) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Mar 2019 16:47:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37315 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f7u-0007dt-Bx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54093) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f7t-0007dg-4e for 34749@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:47:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f7n-0006AZ-8Z; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:47:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3618 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h2f7l-0002N0-I3; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:47:02 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:33:54 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:156188 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:33:54 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 34749@debbugs.gnu.org > > > >> That text is all right and yet was incomprehensible for me at first > > >> (and second) reading. It's probably just me, so ignore that. > > > > > > Maybe we should improve it. But I cannot tell how, because "a > > > sequence of elements separated by newlines, one for each argument" is > > > very clear for me. If you can tell what was incomprehensible in that, > > > maybe we will be able to come up with an improvement. > > > > The text is too perfect with two cross references, a footnote and an > > example with a hacker idiom. Not a single redundancy, not a word to > > miss. Probably too terse for me. > > I wonder if it would help to give an example where > we show correspondence between a spec that uses a > string argument to `interactive' that specifies a > few args to the function, of different types, and > a spec that uses a Lisp sexp, which when evaluated > produces a list of those same args. There's an example right after that text.