From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no "thing" datatype - e.g. faces Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:36:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119593713 27762 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 06:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 08:15:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhSU-0006kZ-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhZS-0007mO-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhFz-0000UH-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhFv-0000QE-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhFu-00005x-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DlgwV-00054q-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dlgs1-0001Zk-PG; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:36:53 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39399 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39399 But I wonder if perhaps something about this shouldn't be mentioned in the Info section on datatypes - perhaps mentioning `face' as an example of something you might in some ways be inclined to think of as a datatype but that Emacs treats differently from a type. Adding a brief section about faces in that chapter is a good idea. I don't have time to work on it, but if someone else writes it, we could install it. 2) Cross-reference the discussions of some of the important "non-types", such as `face'. My memory doesn't recall any others, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. What others do you know of?