From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa 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 15:32:26 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119595627 31740 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 06:47:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 08:47:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhxf-0003jU-AS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:46:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dli4d-00020N-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhkk-0002ra-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:33:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhke-0002qm-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhke-0002qX-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DlhnJ-0007rt-U8; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from nfs.m17n.org (nfs.m17n.org [192.47.44.7]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j5O6WR86017662; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:32:27 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by nfs.m17n.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j5O6WRCq019973; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:32:27 +0900 Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Dlhjm-0004bb-00; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:32:26 +0900 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/22.0.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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:39409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39409 In article , "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > 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? coding-system, charset, fontset? --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org