From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12282@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12282: 24.1.50; `font-lock-value-in-major-mode': doc string and parameter name
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 19:25:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvnthsr3.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF443DB87F224864AF2A750E5F47E588@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:59:36 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The parameter should be renamed. It is an alist associating major modes
> with font-lock decoration levels OR it is such a level.
>
> The current doc and parameter name give the impression that the argument
> passed is typically an alist. But in practice (existing code in Emacs
> distribution, as well as existing 3rd-party code), it is more often a
> decoration level (including `t' for max decoration) that is passed as
> argument.
>
> Just saying that the return value is ALIST if ALIST is not an alist,
> while certainly correct, is being less clear than we could be.
Fixed on trunk.
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2012-08-26 14:59 bug#12282: 24.1.50; `font-lock-value-in-major-mode': doc string and parameter name Drew Adams
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