From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
Cc: 52018@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52018: 28.0.60; Improve documentation for compilation-finish-functions
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:53:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee79qo9g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfvpguoh.fsf@thb.lt> (message from Thibault Polge on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:44:46 +0100)
> From: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>
> Cc: 52018@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:44:46 +0100
>
> > Why do you think this addition is of such great importance to have it
> > spelled out in the doc string?
>
> All the docstring currently states about that argument is that it's “a
> string describing how the process finished”, which requires users to
> determine its possible values through trial and error, or by digging
> into the code.
I'm asking why do you think they should care. If they want the
process exit status, they can have it, can't they?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-21 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-21 10:48 bug#52018: 28.0.60; Improve documentation for compilation-finish-functions Thibault Polge
2021-11-21 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 19:08 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-21 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 19:44 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-21 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-21 20:00 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-21 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 20:20 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-21 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-22 9:12 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-22 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 9:26 ` Thibault Polge
2021-11-23 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 7:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 16:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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