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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 22683@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22683: 25.1.50; auto-composition-mode
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 07:53:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mUSiy-00036n-L1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnD+RjiBaQD1sHg8bZTfvHheGPdR_-FA_yPxq9L36WBnw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:06:39 -0700)

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  > | If called from Lisp, toggle the mode if ARG is ‘toggle’.  Enable the
  > | mode if ARG is nil, omitted, or is a positive number.  Disable the
  > | mode if ARG is a negative number.
  > `----

  > Is that sufficiently clear?

Yes, but

  > It doesn't say what happens if ARG is zero, so perhaps the last sentence
  > above should be amended to say "negative number or zero".

I think it should not leave zero an undocumented mystery.  If we want
to discourage it (though I don't follow why), let's say "Don't use
zero as argument."  Otherwise, let's say what zero means as argument.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-26 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15 17:46 bug#22683: 25.1.50; auto-composition-mode Richard Stallman
2016-02-15 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-16 22:47   ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-17 19:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 12:34       ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-19 15:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 14:28           ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:44               ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-25  0:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25  1:11   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25  1:35     ` bug#22683: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-25  1:54     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25  2:04       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25  2:43         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 11:53   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-09-26 12:46     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-26 20:27   ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27  4:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 14:09       ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 14:34         ` Stefan Kangas

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