From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com>
Cc: 39789@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39789: eieio Info misspells slot name in eieio-instance-tracker
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:20:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv3dxo2x.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rqir6sq.fsf@gmail.com> (akater's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:05:41 +0000")
akater <nuclearspace@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm using Emacs 28 from git master.
>
> Excerpt from EIEIO entry in Info Directory:
>> Sometimes it is useful to keep a master list of all instances of a
>> given class. The class ‘eieio-instance-tracker’ performs this task.
>
>> -- Class: eieio-instance-tracker tracker-symbol
>> Enable instance tracking for this class. The slot TRACKER-SYMBOL
>> should be initialized in inheritors of this class to a symbol
>> created with ‘defvar’. This symbol will serve as the variable used
>> as a master list of all objects of the given class.
>
> At the moment, eieio-instance-tracker is defined in eieio-base with slot
> named
>
>> TRACKING-SYMBOL
>
> not
>
>> TRACKER-SYMBOL
>
> EIEIO entry in Info Directory should thus be patched to refer to slot's
> actual name `tracking-symbol'. These are the only two mentions of the
> slot in eieio.info.bz2
This would be easy enough to fix -- we're doing documentation fixes on
the 27 branch, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-26 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 16:05 bug#39789: eieio Info misspells slot name in eieio-instance-tracker akater
2020-02-26 17:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-02-26 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-26 20:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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