From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Manual suggestions for quit-restore documentation Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 09:24:02 -0800 Message-ID: <871subhc25.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87varoh5ka.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <58BBE3DB.7000000@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488734799 7769 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2017 17:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 17:26:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 18:26:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZvU-0001Mz-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:26:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZva-00038c-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 12:26:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZtN-0002Cv-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 12:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZtL-000235-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 12:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41293 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZtK-00021g-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 12:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ckZt9-00057J-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:24:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:GP6e21WF1w2fGLZFOcYF5kBTI9I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212771 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: >> I've attached a diff with my edits; if/when some version of this is >> eventually approved I can do a proper commit. > > Thanks. Please install. > >> I didn't add anything in the Window Parameters section about the first >> two elements of the quit-restore parameter, simply because I don't >> understand them well enough. I still think something should be said >> there about how they influence quit behavior, though -- this is the >> first place that people will look to find out how this works, and the >> current docs are very clear about "what", but beg the question of "why". > > Trying to recall. Oof, no wonder documentation is currently slim. Thanks for all these explanations; I'll take a little time and look through the code and make sure I actually understand this before trying to document it. As per your other message, I'll also add a bit about how to do it "manually". Thanks again, Eric