From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:26:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160825223858.GA51405@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <20160826182149.GA51596@breton.holly.idiocy.org> Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113d5d9caea4e3053afe80f5 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472239706 4922 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2016 19:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:28:26 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-Devel devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 21:28:15 2016 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 1bdMnW-00008A-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:28:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdMnU-0005iq-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdMmj-0005Zt-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdMme-00006O-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdMme-00006G-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-f48.google.com ([209.85.218.48]:34615) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bdMmd-0001gJ-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-f48.google.com with SMTP id l203so123817565oib.1 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:27:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMQaHtEPVzeUNMM/UgCIqmJ6gqg6cF1V5Q8ehcC0mdqPCpfy5uCoaYjU67sF8xdo86IFqO2cOKpTbZFiA== X-Received: by 10.202.234.65 with SMTP id i62mr4005233oih.176.1472239638584; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.170.137 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:26:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160826182149.GA51596@breton.holly.idiocy.org> X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:206822 Archived-At: --001a113d5d9caea4e3053afe80f5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Alan Third wrote: > Presumably something somewhere is looking for a symbol and > really doesn=E2=80=99t like getting a string instead. > =E2=80=8BAlthough experienced users will read the documentation for ns-control-modifier =E2=80=8B and recognize that the value should=E2=80=8B =E2=80=8B 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 --001a113d5d9caea4e3053afe80f5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= 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=E2=80=99t like getting a string instead.

=E2=80=8BAlthough experienced users= will read the documentation for=C2=A0
ns-control-modifier
= =E2=80=8B and recognize that the value should=E2=80=8B
=E2=80=8B
=C2=A0be a symbol, there is nothing= specific that tells less experienced users that it must be a symbol and no= t a string.=C2=A0 An explicit addition of such language to appropriate ns- = variables will eliminate any question.

Bob



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