From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:13:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EVj2A-0000Fh-Sv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31729.1130452199@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:29:59 -0700)
I would therefore propose, for the sake of usability, to modify
checkdoc-this-string-valid-engine so that it accepts "On means" as well
as "Non-nil means".
This is a real issue, but it opens a can of worms. Your solution
makes it easier to understand in Custom and harder to understand at
the Lisp level. I don't think that is a good solution; that is not
the way to go.
How to make things clear at both levels, as best as possible with
reasonable amounts of effort, calls for a lot of thought. It should
not be rushed. This is something people can think about now, but
think in terms of doing it after the release.
For the mean time, I don't want to change our conventions
or make a few exceptions to them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-27 22:29 "Non-nil means" versus "On means" in docstrings Bill Wohler
2005-10-28 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-28 16:22 ` Bill Wohler
2005-10-28 22:08 ` Bill Wohler
2005-10-29 5:13 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-10-29 7:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-29 20:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 21:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-29 22:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-30 20:15 ` Bill Wohler
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