From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 28237@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28237: 25.2; doc string of `Info-virtual-nodes'
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:51:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736j7cy8m.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e97ea4b6-157d-4cbb-b9cc-cb57ab4214fe@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:05:20 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Neither OPERATION nor HANDLER is specified well.
>
> 1. These parts of the doc string are incomprehensible:
>
> OPERATION is one of the following operation symbols `find-node'
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that define what HANDLER function to call instead of calling the
> default corresponding function to override it.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I can't even parse the first bit. Is it trying to say that OPERATION
> must be `find-node'? (No idea.)
>
> The second bit: what is the "default corresponding function"? What
> does that mean? Default wrt what? Corresponding to what?
>
> 2. HANDLER is not specified at all. No doubt it is a function. But
> what arguments can or must the function accept?
Looks like Eli fixed this at the time but forgot to close this report.
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2017-08-25 22:05 bug#28237: 25.2; doc string of `Info-virtual-nodes' Drew Adams
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