From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 22683@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22683: 25.1.50; auto-composition-mode
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:54:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fuwrun7x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1aVoOh-0000fj-IN@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:47:07 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: 22683@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:47:07 -0500
>
> The words
>
> > If called from Lisp,
> > > enable the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
>
> seem to mean, "If the arg is omitted or nil, enable the mode;
> otherwise disable it." I was surprised by the actual behavior.
Yes, the text is ambiguous.
> Does that text come from a macro?
No, it comes from the call to define-minor-mode. Problem is, this is
a standard wording we have in more than 200 modes in Emacs. If we
want to change that, we need to change all of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-15 17:46 bug#22683: 25.1.50; auto-composition-mode Richard Stallman
2016-02-15 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-16 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-17 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-19 12:34 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-19 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 14:28 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-25 0:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 1:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25 1:35 ` bug#22683: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-25 1:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 2:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25 2:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 11:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-26 12:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 20:27 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 4:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 14:09 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 14:34 ` Stefan Kangas
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