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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Document option tool-bar-mode
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:39:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EoCoM-0000Wy-9D@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512180258.jBI2wrO21007@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:58:53 -0600 (CST))

    >       You can turn display of tool bars on or off with @kbd{M-x
    >    -tool-bar-mode}.
    >    +tool-bar-mode} or by customizing the option @samp{tool-bar-mode}.
    > 
    > The two things above are described as equivalent, but they are not.
    > The first is strictly for the current session, the second is usually
    > meant to be permanent.

Not necessaily.  You can set variables either temporarily or permanently
with Custom.  So I think Bill's text is not wrong (aside from @samp).

We're talking to people here, not to machines.  If people won't get
the wrong idea, it isn't a problem.  Meanwhile, making the text longer
and more cumberson would impede clarity.  Let's use Bill's shorter
text.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-18  1:20 Document option tool-bar-mode Bill Wohler
2005-12-18  2:58 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-18  5:57   ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-19  3:22     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-19  3:41       ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-19  3:52         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-19 23:46           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-19  4:39   ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-12-19  4:49     ` Bill Wohler
2005-12-19  5:24     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-19 23:47       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20  1:30         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-20 16:33           ` Richard M. Stallman

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