From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
Cc: 23372@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:26:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb307773-2842-57fc-1246-962f9f5eda84@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpnlq1xu.fsf@gmail.com>
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When text-quoting-style was introduced, Stefan Monnier (then the
maintainer) did not see the need the the variable at all, and wrote "At
the very least it should not be a Custom var." See:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg01020.html
Eventually I vaguely recall that Stefan was persuaded to put up with the
variable. Still, I think he's right that it's not suitable for a user
option. I installed the attached patch to try to document this better.
Since it's intended for experts, the variable is documented in the
reference manual, not the user manual.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-25 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-25 12:59 bug#23372: 25.0.93; `text-quoting-style' missing from manual and from customize N. Jackson
2016-04-25 22:26 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-04-26 1:41 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style " Drew Adams
2016-04-26 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 0:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 19:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-28 21:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 12:54 ` Nicolas Petton
[not found] ` <CAFyQvY08mqnw7KV1Z-oTDXb69E8V+PJoKbJhcYzOzpauP0a_8Q@mail.gmail.com>
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
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