From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: custom type `color' is not enforced
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:59:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J5Z2p-0000lh-Lf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEOJCFAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Don't assume that the user knows just which option s?he wants to describe.
`describe-variable' gives you only one way, by option name, to define a set
of candidate options, in order to pick one to describe.
I'm not assuming that. Rather, I don't think very many people
would take the trouble to remember that `describe-option-of-type'
exists. Thus, practically speaking it would not be very useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAELMEBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
2007-12-18 23:00 ` custom type `color' is not enforced Drew Adams
2007-12-20 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 1:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-20 19:27 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 3:59 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-12-21 6:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-21 6:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 9:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-21 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-22 6:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 20:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-23 10:54 ` Per Abrahamsen
2007-12-23 12:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-25 13:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
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