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From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>
To: jimb@red-bean.com
Cc: raman@users.sf.net, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proced-refine: confusing doc string
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:30:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18657.36679.485198.413331@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0809282327o701b7ba1y6953826a5117a99a@mail.gmail.com>

This would definitely help.

I'm still at a loss to understand how proced-refine works --
perhaps because I'm running outside X? 

It's unclear how this thing is supposed to work on a text console.

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
    Jim> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Lennart Borgman
    Jim> (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> T. V. Raman wrote:
    >>> The proced-refine command has the following as part of
    >>> its doc string:
    >>> 
    >>> <cite> If point is on the attribute ATTR, this command
    >>> compares the value of ATTR of every process with the
    >>> value of ATTR of the process at the position of point.
    >>> One can select processes for which the value of ATTR is
    >>> \"less than\", \"equal\", and / or \"larger\" than ATTR
    >>> of the process point is on.
    >>> 
    >>> </cite>
    >>> 
    >>> The initial sentence talks about point being in the
    >>> header, the latter half talks about the process that
    >>> point is on. How can point be in both places at once?
    >> 
    >> Doesn't it mean the column ATTR (or however it is layed
    >> out, I do not know)?
    Jim> 
    Jim> It does --- but Raman is certainly not the only user
    Jim> reading it that way.  Should the docstring be more
    Jim> explicit?  Attached is what would make sense to me.

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--raman

      
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-28 19:41 proced-refine: confusing doc string T. V. Raman
2008-09-28 19:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-29  6:27   ` Jim Blandy
2008-09-30  2:30     ` T. V. Raman [this message]
2008-09-30 17:46       ` Jim Blandy
2008-10-01  3:01         ` T. V. Raman

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