From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:32:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737ywzsr6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ZXA94-0000NL-U8@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:40:18 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > DEFUN ("set-message-beep", Fset_message_beep, Sset_message_beep, 1, 1, 0,
> > doc: /* Set the sound generated when the bell is rung.
> > -SOUND is 'asterisk, 'exclamation, 'hand, 'question, 'ok, or 'silent
> > -to use the corresponding system sound for the bell. The 'silent sound
> > +SOUND is `asterisk', `exclamation', `hand', `question', `ok', or `silent'
> > +to use the corresponding system sound for the bell. The `silent' sound
> > prevents Emacs from making any sound at all.
>
> These changes are necessary in any case; the old text violates
> Emacs documentation conventions. It is incorrect to indicate
> a symbol in text by writing a singlequote before it.
> The correct way is to write quotes around it (except for t and nil).
Thanks.
My actual point of annoyance was the total inability to get any useful
feedback concerning such changes because of semantic gameplay.
--
David Kastrup
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[not found] ` <E1ZWIKb-0007FR-Kk@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31 6:26 ` [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:39 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 6:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:53 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 7:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 7:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 1:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 1:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 5:19 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 5:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:40 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 16:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-09-03 15:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 18:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 21:50 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-07 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1ZWIKd-0007Fs-15@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31 6:29 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 7:35 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-31 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 1:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-01 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 10:45 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 10:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-01 11:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 11:40 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 11:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 12:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 14:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 10:16 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-03 11:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-03 15:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 13:31 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 14:15 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 5:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 10:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 11:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 15:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-03 17:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 16:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 17:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 22:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 10:48 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 12:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-03 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-02 22:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 12:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-03 14:56 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-04 13:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-07 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 11:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 11:52 ` Quoting yank/diff prefixes (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim) David Kastrup
2015-09-03 14:34 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 1:20 ` Paul Eggert
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