From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 38601@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 09:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k16z73qj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0crpzxg.5.fsf@jidanni.org>
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:29:31 +0800
>
> ^L
> Electric-Indent minor mode (no indicator):
> Toggle on-the-fly reindentation (Electric Indent mode).
> With a prefix argument ARG, enable Electric Indent mode if ARG is
> positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable
> the mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
>
> When enabled, this reindents whenever the hook ‘electric-indent-functions’
> returns non-nil, or if you insert a character from ‘electric-indent-chars’.
>
> This is a global minor mode. To toggle the mode in a single buffer,
> use ‘electric-indent-local-mode’.
> ^L
>
> The problem is, it doesn't mention how to turn it on and off!
Actually, it does: that's the last sentence above.
> The user has to click on each line right after an ^L, to learn that he
> simply needs to do e.g.,
>
> (electric-indent-mode &optional ARG)
That's not a user command, that's a Lisp way of doing this stuff, and
therefore doesn't have to be anywhere near the beginning of the help
text.
So I think we should close this as a non-b ug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-14 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-13 23:29 bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-14 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-15 20:58 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-04-18 16:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-12-15 2:09 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-15 20:28 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-12-15 22:00 ` Tomas Nordin
2019-12-15 22:32 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-16 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
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