From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: defcustom and the stars. Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:13:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87hcv6k2vs.fsf@lrde.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167949076 8387 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 22:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 23:17:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2auC-0003VX-RK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:17:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2auC-0000bQ-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2aro-0007iE-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2arm-0007gl-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2arm-0007gf-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.87.113.118] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2arl-0002CJ-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:15:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l04MF9lg005682; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:15:09 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt250.oracle.com (rcsmt250.oracle.com [148.87.90.195]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l04MF8QR016784; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:15:09 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2336382291167948829; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:13:49 -0700 Original-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Micha=EBl=22_Cadilhac?= X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87hcv6k2vs.fsf@lrde.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rgminet01.oracle.com id l04MF9lg005682 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:64777 Archived-At: Hi Michael, > Please, do not remove me from the list of Cc as I don't scrupulously > read Emacs Devel usually. OK; sorry about that. I know I don't like getting two copies of everythin= g, so I tend to think others too might want just the list copy. I realize th= is is an incorrect assumption. > > Yes. Here is a doc string I have, for instance. > > "**Completions* window is removed if fewer chars than this are input= ." > > I don't see your point. Maybe this has been discussed with Juanma, but > what's the harm removing the first * ? The doc string that the user sees then reads "Completions* window...", wh= ich is not good - the text should say *Completions*. > > Why not just leave any extra `*' there? > > Because it's confusing and somewhat useless for the user. The user doesn't see the first `*'. How is it confusing to the user? > What about =AB You can change this variable using `set-variable' =BB wi= th > a link on =AB change =BB ? Yes, that's OK by me. (Though it's really the value that is changed...)