From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 3395@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:04:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3hg695a.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8DDC936FF10748F9978A1579E9DB7946@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:53:39 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> It has not been fixed. You do not see it because `variable-at-point'
> (used by `describe-variable') compensates here. (Likewise,
> `symbol-at-point'.)
If these functions pick up the symbol as intended, I don't see what the
problem is.
> The buffer syntax should be that of Emacs Lisp.
It's not an Emacs Lisp buffer. It's a text buffer that may have some
Emacs Lisp symbols in it.
> Arbitrary functions that pick up (Lisp) symbol names should and will
> then pick up a `:' as part of a symbol name.
The arbitrary functions should use `symbol-at-point' or the like.
> Because of this, we should remove this colon, which is anyway
> unnecessary.
It looks nice. I'm closing this bug report.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-11 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 23:38 bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name Drew Adams
2009-05-26 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:15 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:43 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 17:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 20:40 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 16:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 17:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-11 17:19 ` Drew Adams
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