From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Thibault Polge <thibault@thb.lt>, 52018@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52018: 28.0.60; Improve documentation for compilation-finish-functions
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:02:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735nmxcgz.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7c3ox87.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:47:04 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > If the purpose is to provide the exit status to the function, we need
>> > to take care to pass it without any massaging. We don't make a point
>> > of doing that now, so I'd prefer not to document this in such certain
>> > terms, as people will then complain that it isn't 100% accurate.
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification. This makes sense, I'm just not sure how to
>> act on this. Would you rather drop this change or modify it to use more
>> cautious language?
>
> Not sure, actually. Lars, WDYT?
The string that's passed in is a pretty free-form string, so I'm not
sure what we could say about it in the manual that'd be meaningful.
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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
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 [this message]
2021-11-24 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 16:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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