From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41026: Improve documentation of `makunbound' and `fmakunbound' Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 18:41:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83d07ms5t0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d07ms7xu.fsf@igel.home> <87lfma4c25.fsf@stefankangas.se> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="70645"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, 41026@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 17:42:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHJ-000IFV-WD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:42:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54696 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHI-0007PI-P4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHD-0007PA-Ap for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHC-0000sK-SG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHC-0000sF-FT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuHC-0004N9-Da for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 15:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41026 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41026-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41026.158843409616742 (code B ref 41026); Sat, 02 May 2020 15:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41026) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 May 2020 15:41:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53719 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuGl-0004Lw-N1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57624) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuGk-0004Lk-H3 for 41026@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:41:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuGe-0007Up-Q1; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1383 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuGZ-0003DQ-4R; Sat, 02 May 2020 11:41:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lfma4c25.fsf@stefankangas.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 02 May 2020 17:00:02 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179519 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:00:02 +0200 > Cc: 41026@debbugs.gnu.org > > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > On Mai 02 2020, Stefan Kangas wrote: > > > >> + doc: /* Make variable SYMBOL's value be void. > > > > What's a variable symbol? Is that the same as a varying symbol? > > The sentence is a bit unwieldy to get right, if you also want to > include the word "variable". Is this clearer? > > "Make the value of the variable named SYMBOL be void." I think the ELisp manual gets it right: Empty out the value cell of SYMBOL, making it void as a variable.