From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 42400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 19:34:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mu3zqs7j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2427f02d-3cbe-45f6-a66e-dd36d33b9df3@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT), Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> said:
Drew> Both the Emacs and Elisp manuals describe the behavior of ARG as an
Drew> integer or a string. But what about anything else?
Drew> In `startup.el', `edt-mapper.el', and `tpu-edt.el', for example, we find
Drew> (kill-emacs t). How is someone to understand this code?
Itʼs equivalent to exit'ing with EXIT_SUCCESS, without having to worry
about the value of '0' on your platform :-) Not sure how weʼd express
that in the docstring.
Robert
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-16 15:25 bug#42400: 26.3; doc of `kill-emacs' optional ARG Drew Adams
2020-07-16 17:34 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-07-16 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-17 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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