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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 10294@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10294: 24.0.92; doc string of `set-face-attribute'
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:01:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vcoo6ogi.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1EA0EF4D5D402298A5E44BD5C5D8F8@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:18:41 -0800")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> The Elisp manual is clear.  The doc string is not:
>
>  "FRAME nil means change attributes on all frames."
>
> You must tell users just what "all frames" you have in mind here - be
> explicit.  Say what the manual says:
>
>  "this function sets the attributes for all existing frames, and the
>   default for new frames"
>
> It is quite important that by "all frames" you mean all existing frames
> AND all future frames.  That is not clear, not obvious.

Ok; fixed.

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2011-12-13 22:18 bug#10294: 24.0.92; doc string of `set-face-attribute' Drew Adams
2012-01-07  6:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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