From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
"Emacs-Devel devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Deniz Dogan" <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Why can't I turn off scroll bars?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 18:59:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinsMqTCcw5z8JJnwkDa8TOynUDPExLW_lx-NY8B@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D11E5C9CC7F4D508E233527272C0A15@us.oracle.com>
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> >> "With a numeric argument, if the argument is positive
>> >> turn on scroll bars; otherwise turn off scroll bars."
>> >
>> > (And 0 is not a positive number.)
>>
>> So there is a documentation error in define-minor-mode.
>
> Is there? Please be specific. Which part of the doc is erroneous, and how?
>
> I just looked at the doc for `define-minor-mode', both the Elisp manual and the
> doc string. I do not see where it suggests that 0 is a positive number - or
> anything like that. Rather than expecting people to spend time searching for
> what you might mean, please point specifically to the problem text. Thx.
Ah, you are right. define-minor-mode does not add this part of the doc
string (yet).
I suggested that it should but we have not made that change yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-23 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-23 13:51 Why can't I turn off scroll bars? Deniz Dogan
2010-05-23 15:41 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-23 16:18 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-05-23 16:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-23 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-23 16:59 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-23 16:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-05-23 17:40 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-23 17:41 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-05-24 0:36 ` Deniz Dogan
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