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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com,
	raman@google.com
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:17:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838u5nz808.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5653D84A.2070200@cs.ucla.edu>

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:23:54 -0800
> Cc: Emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Drew Adams wrote:
> 
> > 1. Just because you might make use of this
> >     variable in the implementation of `substitute-command-keys',
> >     that is no reason to document it here.
> 
> Where should it be documented?

I think it should be a defcustom, and documented in the user manual.

> > 3. Why is this not a _user option_, instead of an internal
> >     variable?
> 
> Stefan asked that it not be a custom var; see:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg01020.html

He also said he hoped we'll delete the variable, so it's not
surprising he didn't want to document it.

Lots of water under the bridge since then, so I think we are not where
we were back then, and the variable cannot be left in its obscurity.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 23:40 Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? T.V Raman
2015-11-24  0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-24  0:25   ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24  3:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24  3:44       ` raman
2015-11-24 15:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 16:21           ` raman
2015-11-24 16:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 23:17               ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 23:38                 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25  0:04                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25  0:07                     ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25  0:10                     ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 18:10           ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 18:21             ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24  2:18   ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24  3:23     ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24  3:50       ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24  5:54         ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 14:39           ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 18:07             ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 16:17       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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