From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>, 13810@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:43:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2vos5ro.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7glwtnrl.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:30:50 -0500")
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:30:50 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The doc string of newline says "Call `auto-fill-function'..."; you can
>> only call a function, not a variable (I suppose you can call a variable
>> something, but not just call it).
>
> Yet, I think that newline doesn't call the `auto-fill-function'
> function, but the function contained in the
> `auto-fill-function' variable.
Still, it doesn't "call the variable" ;-). Anyway, isn't the potential
for confusion here rather limited, since the function auto-fill-function
is a noop just there for its doc string?
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-25 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-25 10:03 bug#13810: 24.3.50; Docstring of `newline' is confusing Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-25 12:23 ` Stephen Berman
2013-02-25 12:48 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-25 13:05 ` Stephen Berman
2013-02-25 13:27 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-25 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 22:33 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-26 3:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 15:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-25 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-25 18:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-25 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-25 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-25 16:43 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2013-02-25 13:18 ` Stephen Berman
2013-02-25 13:35 ` Xue Fuqiao
2020-09-21 14:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87d2vos5ro.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box \
--to=stephen.berman@gmx.net \
--cc=13810@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=xfq.free@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).