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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
Cc: 37538@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37538: [PATCH] Add docstring for `tags-complete-tags-table-file'.
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:21:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l0j1a3j.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <860671c8-787c-512c-8df6-ea1d9dfc2f5b@topbug.net> (Hong Xu's message of "Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:27:52 -0700")

Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net> writes:

> Would the following docstring work for you (will be reformatted)?
> Because the function accepts the same arguments as the one documented
> in `(elisp) Programmed Completion', I thought it should be
> understandable that WHAT refers to the third argument.
>
> The meaning of the arguments are the same as the function form of
> COLLECTION as explained in Info node `(elisp) Programmed
> Completion', except that if the third parameter (WHAT) does not equal
> t, it is treated
> as if it were nil.

The problem is that `(elisp) Programmed Completion' (at least in Emacs
27) doesn't mention a WHAT parameter at all, so it's unclear what this
refers to.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-08 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-28  7:59 bug#37538: [PATCH] Add docstring for `tags-complete-tags-table-file' Hong Xu
2019-09-28  8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 18:40   ` Hong Xu
2019-10-07  4:13     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07 16:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-07 17:27         ` Hong Xu
2019-10-08 16:21           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-09  6:39             ` Hong Xu
2019-10-09  8:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-09 22:58                 ` Hong Xu
2019-10-10  7:49                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12  0:48                     ` Hong Xu
2019-10-12  9:04                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-12 18:46                         ` Hong Xu
2019-10-12 18:57                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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