From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#56870: company-dabbrev variable documentation Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:32:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: <878ro74pz5.fsf@rfc20.org> Reply-To: uzibalqa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29989"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 56870@debbugs.gnu.org To: Matt Armstrong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 01 23:51:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdKQ-0007b9-KJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56450 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdKP-0002a4-Gz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdJd-0001hp-K4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52020) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdJX-0001zt-4r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdJX-0007V3-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:51:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: uzibalqa Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 56870 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 56870-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B56870.165939064628791 (code B ref 56870); Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 56870) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Aug 2022 21:50:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41766 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oIdJG-0007UG-7B for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40141.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.141]:27521) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oId1N-0006um-R8 for 56870@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:32:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=protonmail; t=1659389531; x=1659648731; bh=hOXPaphZ17WGO79LuvKyu12ycGN40KKcwh9DTDeM2h0=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To: References:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To: Feedback-ID:Message-ID; b=f41zXoTyvGQE+Je1CZZh8k9toW1mp8OkVoTXWGykgkGkHuuIHghgc0loekKoJ/o+q U1FcwkBlktQYtAVL9NUiIZRhwOhG8LYhZorLCeqpbDTh1kExx+C48fMU1MTBcvWK0Y kYSgkxHVoL9XE3ZE7gzZMQXRfiy3OC+5KrW6ES7eeVfutZKOFK/RknT/o+5hW5QRH4 6uZ0/539IQsVf+Rk5jdjGWpvnw2ehLxVnRXbt8DcFb6wP1lVEji5W5LjeeETq8BBdL Ihq0X8oXIkETqrTx2bYDi1USjFFwhBHDDPEmLZ8sE3Nue3+WS0Dx6qe3ChgliVh0vu r+e6vNa6xp9ww== In-Reply-To: <878ro74pz5.fsf@rfc20.org> Feedback-ID: 52887082:user:proton X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:50:44 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" X-ACL-Warn: , uzibalqa Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:238474 Archived-At: ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 9:24 PM, Matt Armstrong wro= te: > uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me writes: > > > I am setting company-dabbrev variables > > > > (setq company-dabbrev-other-buffers 'all) > > (setq company-dabbrev-ignore-case 'keep-prefix) > > > > The documentation for the variables, says > > > > If =E2=80=98all=E2=80=99, search all other buffers, except the ignored = ones. > > > > I find the documentation confusing because nowhere does it say that on > > should use 'all rather than all or "all". > > > I can understand your confusion. > > When working at the level of Emacs Lisp, keep a few things in mind: > > a) Generally, in Emacs Lisp help, if you see something like =E2=80=98all= =E2=80=99 it > means a lisp level symbol. This could be a function name, variable, or > some other symbol. This is part of the project's conventions, described > here: > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation-T= ips.html > > b) When lisp level interfaces expect strings they generally say so, and > the examples use quotes like "this". > > c) A bare all (without any quotes at all), is just a word, and not > a Lisp level function or variable. > > Hope that helps! It is a shame that documentation does not come with example. It is what is= much lacking.