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From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
To: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:26:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+OMD9g6KWpM=G2mJiOpzRR9TyuckvwQzp_crsarFFsXH9e4pQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826182149.GA51596@breton.holly.idiocy.org>

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

> Presumably something somewhere is looking for a symbol and
> really doesn’t like getting a string instead.
>

​Although experienced users will read the documentation for
ns-control-modifier
​ and recognize that the value should​
​
 be a symbol, there is nothing specific that tells less experienced users
that it must be a symbol and not a string.  An explicit addition of such
language to appropriate ns- variables will eliminate any question.

Bob

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-26 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-25  9:04 Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke Randy Bush
2016-08-25 15:08 ` Alan Third
2016-08-25 19:10   ` Randy Bush
2016-08-25 22:38     ` Alan Third
2016-08-26  0:32       ` Randy Bush
2016-08-26  3:11       ` Randy Bush
2016-08-26 18:21         ` Alan Third
2016-08-26 19:26           ` Robert Weiner [this message]
2016-08-29  9:28           ` Alan Third
2016-08-29  9:31             ` Randy Bush
2016-08-29  9:37             ` Anders Lindgren
2016-08-29 13:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-29 14:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 18:37               ` Alan Third
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2016-08-25 10:04 Randy Bush

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