From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:33:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461E898B.5010005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4pnlz985.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> The doc string for easy-menu-define says that
>
>> "If SYMBOL is non-nil, store the menu keymap in the value of symbol,
>> and define symbol as a function to pop up the menu, with doc as its
>> doc string."
>
>> I looks like it is enough that SYMBOL is just a symbol name (it need not be
>> interned).
>
> I'm not sure I understand: a symbol can be either interned or not.
> I.e. an uninterned symbol *is a symbol*. OTOH a symbol name is *not*
> a symbol: it's a string.
To me it would be easier to understand if it said
"SYMBOL may be nil or a symbol name. If it is a symbol name ..."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 22:09 Small but confusing doc error in easy-menu-define Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-12 19:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-04-12 19:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-12 20:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 20:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-04-12 20:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 21:46 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-12 22:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-12 23:55 ` Davis Herring
2007-04-13 12:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-12 22:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-12 22:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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