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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 52741@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52741: 27.2; Doc string of `visual-line-mode'
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:13:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1n0bxG-0002Ze-Er@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488E1441E9C533F15E021A6F37D9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:42:50 +0000)

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  > What on earth is ARG, for interactive use?  The description of
  > interactive use should talk about things like a prefix arg, not about
  > unexplained things like ARG.  How will a user know how to pass argument
  > ARG interactively?

It's standard -- every user should know how to give a command a numeric arg.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-24  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-22 22:42 bug#52741: 27.2; Doc string of `visual-line-mode' Drew Adams
2021-12-22 22:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-22 23:18   ` bug#52741: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-24  4:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-12-24  5:32   ` Drew Adams

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