From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 44503@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44503: 27.1; image-scroll-up and image-scroll-down
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:56:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735trmkdl.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36339.58287.924793.24767@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 8 Jun 2021 10:34:11 -0500")
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> I am sorry, I haven't had as much progress as I had wanted to. I
> realized that the discrepancy between documented behavior and actual
> code exists in a larger number of commands than I had expected. So
> the question becomes: for how many commands do we want to include a
> remark in the docstring saying that due to historical reasons they
> call prefix-numeric-value not in their interactive specs, but
> scroll_command calls prefix_numeric_value in its body, which defines
> how these commands interpret the argument. (The actual wording in the
> docstrings should probably be different.)
>
> I guess for the built-in functions scroll-up and scroll-down as well
> as image-scroll-up and image-scroll-down it is most important to
> mention this and we could leave the docstrings of other commands
> untouched. What do you think?
Well, the doc strings for these commands don't really describe
interactive usage at all, but I think most people would interpret what's
there as "it's like (interactive "p"), but with no prefix at all it
behaves differently". (Which is what it does -- a full screen instead
of a line.)
Stating this explicitly in the doc strings of these four commands would
be nice. So something like:
Interactively, giving this command a numerical prefix will scroll by
that many lines. Without a prefix, scroll by a full screen.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-09 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-07 15:16 bug#44503: 27.1; image-scroll-up and image-scroll-down Roland Winkler
2020-11-07 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09 20:03 ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-06 10:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-08 15:34 ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-09 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-09 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 8:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-10 12:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-10 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 15:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-10 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 12:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-07 13:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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