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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 6151@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6151: mystery arguments of define-minor-mode + describe-function
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:45:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimRCXWzcPAWDkrA5diymZmceuHGCfoyDjdnDuTm@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vdkgjlu.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:02,  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> Some describe-function results add a mystery argument ARG, not visible
> in the corresponding lisp code.
>
> Or maybe it is visible, but not to your average reader.

Among other things, `define-minor-mode' defines a function, in this
case longlines-mode; and that function, like all minor modes, has an
arg to turn it on or off. So it's not `describe-function' which adds a
"mystery argument", but the docstring for the modes, that sometimes
lacks the relevant info.

That said, any Emacs user should be by now used to minor modes having
such an argument...

    Juanma






  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10 10:02 bug#6151: mystery arguments of define-minor-mode + describe-function jidanni
2010-05-10 10:45 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2010-05-10 11:39   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-10 15:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-13 21:31       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-05-10 10:57 ` jidanni
2010-05-10 11:02   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-13 21:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14  0:57 ` jidanni

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