From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3888: Some variables get the wrong, platform-specific, documentation Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:30:45 +0300 Message-ID: <8363dl6g8a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ws63gkzh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248201482 29112 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 18:38:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 20:37:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTKDq-0000oZ-Gx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:37:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTKDp-0005e2-UY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTKDa-0005Zo-6C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTKDV-0005YO-I8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40905 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTKDU-0005YA-Sk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:47719) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTKDU-0006JO-1B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6LIbTgI017857; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:37:29 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6LIZ45v017196; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:35:04 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:35:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3888 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3888-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3888.124820105816672 (code B ref 3888); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:35:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3888) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 21 Jul 2009 18:30:58 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il (mtaout3.012.net.il [84.95.2.7]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n6LIUqoQ016657 for <3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:30:53 -0700 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KN500F009V91S00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:30:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.246.110]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KN500LXHA39O752@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:30:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:37 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29542 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: 3888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Eli Zaretskii > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:27 -0400 > > > I think, as a temporary solution, we should make the docstrings of all > > the affected functions and variables the same. If necessary, they can > > say somehthing like, "On Windows, this does X. On Nexstep, this does > > Y", and so on. > > That sounds OK as a quick temporary solution. The longer-term solution > is to say that such variables defined in various places are bugs. > I.e. the definition should be moved to a common file. Sorry, I don't follow. Each instance of the definitions of these identically-named symbols is a different platform-specific implementation of the same API. Sometimes, one implementation is in C, the other in Lisp. How can they be moved to the same file? What am I missing?