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* Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time
       [not found]                   ` <4bslgt7y9o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
@ 2006-11-09 23:27                     ` Richard Stallman
  2006-11-10  9:17                       ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-11-09 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

Thanks for fixing it.  Please install your fix, but please note

    + (defcustom calendar-dst-check-each-year-flag t
    +   "Non-nil means to check each year for DST transitions as needed.
    + Nil means to assume the next two transitions found after the

that you mustn't capitalize a symbol name.  Lisp symbol names are
case-sensitive, so Nil is not the same as nil.

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* Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time
  2006-11-09 23:27                     ` calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time Richard Stallman
@ 2006-11-10  9:17                       ` Glenn Morris
  2006-11-10 15:04                         ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2006-11-10  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Thanks for fixing it.  Please install your fix, but please note

It's installed...

> that you mustn't capitalize a symbol name.  Lisp symbol names are
> case-sensitive, so Nil is not the same as nil.

... and several existing examples of this are corrected.

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* Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time
  2006-11-10  9:17                       ` Glenn Morris
@ 2006-11-10 15:04                         ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2006-11-10 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: rms, emacs-devel

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

>> that you mustn't capitalize a symbol name.  Lisp symbol names are
>> case-sensitive, so Nil is not the same as nil.
>
> ... and several existing examples of this are corrected.

Starting a sentence with nil or t should be avoided in general.  For
example, instead of "nil means ..." you can write "... if nil" or
"Otherwise ...".

Andreas.

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