From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-30 73c1252bb6b: Fix link to major mode variable in docstring
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:06:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o776517k.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0c3f1a4.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:54:43 +0200")
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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Or even better would be to eval directly the getter and tell user
>> "mode is %s" on/off instead of proposing to eval.
>
> AFAIU, this is not about telling whether the mode is on at the moment,
> but to tell the user - or programmer - how to check that.
>
>> IIUC the only expessions we may have are (default-value
>> 'global-foo-mode) for global mmodes or foo-mode for normal mmodes.
>
> No, there are more complicated ones, like these:
>
> (frame-parameter nil 'auto-raise) - auto-raise-mode
> (frame-parameter nil 'auto-lower) - auto-lower-mode
> (show-paren--enabled-p) - show-paren-local-mode
> (get-scroll-bar-mode) - scroll-bar-mode
> (and buffer-auto-save-file-name
> (>= buffer-saved-size 0)) - auto-save-mode
> (eq (terminal-parameter nil 'normal-erase-is-backspace) 1)
> - normal-erase-is-backspace-mode
> (eq standard-display-table iso-ascii-display-table)
> - iso-ascii-mode
>
> AFAIU that piece of docstring we discuss is especially helpful in these
> special cases.
Ok, good to know, thanks.
> [ did we lose emacs-dev intentially btw? ]
No, don't know what's happened, now CCing to all.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
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Thierry
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2024-07-08 9:34 ` emacs-30 73c1252bb6b: Fix link to major mode variable in docstring Eshel Yaron
2024-07-08 11:48 ` Stefan Kangas
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