From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Manual suggestions for quit-restore documentation Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 18:14:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9507c432-6677-4f76-a7c4-b5958f126106@default> References: <87varoh5ka.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488680141 21075 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2017 02:15:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:15:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Eric Abrahamsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 03:15:35 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 1ckLhu-0004hU-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 03:15:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckLi0-0008Kf-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckLhN-0008KV-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckLhK-0001Ca-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:35067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckLhK-0001CK-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2017 21:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v252EliF007799 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:14:47 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v252ElZ9026755 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:14:47 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0005.oracle.com (abhmp0005.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v252EkcN000739; Sun, 5 Mar 2017 02:14:47 GMT In-Reply-To: <87varoh5ka.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:212759 Archived-At: > As mentioned in a thread in emacs.help, I've got some suggestions for > the parts of the Elisp manual that touch on the quit-restore window > parameter, and its behaviors. >=20 > I've attached a diff with my edits; if/when some version of this is > eventually approved I can do a proper commit. >=20 > 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". Good initiative! Thanks. I agree that more is needed, but I too don't understand it well enough.