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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 72405@debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: bug#72405: 29.4; Doc string of `org-indent-mode'
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:10:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cd0iyw4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86cymsyguu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:03:37 +0300")

[வியாழன் ஆகஸ்ட் 01, 2024] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:23:59 +0000
>> From:  Drew Adams via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> Likely applies also to other minor-mode doc strings.
>> 
>> emacs -Q
>> C-h f org-indent-mode
>> ____
>> 
>> That shows you doc that includes this, where `org-indent-mode' is a link
>> intended to give you information about the _variable_ of that name:
>> 
>>   To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
>>   evaluate 'org-indent-mode'.
>> 
>> Clicking that link doesn't take you to the _variable_ part of the *Help*
>> buffer; it just puts you back at the start of the buffer (after
>> redrawing it uselessly).
>> 
>> It should take you to the description of the variable.  And the sentence
>> should include the word "variable" before `org-indent-mode'; otherwise,
>> it makes little sense to speak of evaluating that symbol, and the text
>> can confuse or mislead users.
>
> Thanks, but please report Org issues to the Org mailing list first.
> If the Org developers determine it's a core Emacs problem (which is
> hardly possible in this case, but who knows?), then it should be
> reported here.

That sentence is part of easy-mmode--arg-docstring that gets added to
all the minor-mode docstrings.  So it is not org-mode specific.  For
example, font-lock-mode also has the following text:

    To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
    evaluate ‘font-lock-mode’.






  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-01  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-31 20:23 bug#72405: 29.4; Doc string of `org-indent-mode' Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-01  5:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01  5:40   ` Visuwesh [this message]
2024-08-01  5:59     ` Visuwesh
2024-08-01  6:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14  0:40         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-14  2:39           ` Visuwesh
2024-08-14  6:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14  6:38               ` Visuwesh
2024-08-14  6:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14  7:27                   ` Visuwesh
2024-08-14  7:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14  8:04                       ` Visuwesh
2024-08-15  7:39                         ` Eli Zaretskii

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