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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: mark.lillibridge@hp.com
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:44:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoiq5sswcx.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qmh631thrp3.fsf@ts-rhel4.hpl.hp.com> (Mark Lillibridge's message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:20:56 -0700")

Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge@hp.com> writes:
>>  > => "should not be called from Elisp"?
>>  
>>  Oops, thanks,
>
> That's funny; the documentation for goto-line specifically talks about
> its behavior when called from elisp!

Well of course you _can_ call it from elisp, but still, many commands
can be thought of as being "user-oriented".  These are discouraged from
being used in elisp because they have things like side-effects and more
complicated DWIMy behavior that can be undesirable for programming.

However, occasionally, you want to call such commands anyway (e.g., when
you're writing a wrapper for them).

-Miles

-- 
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15 18:47 Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] Mark Lillibridge
     [not found] ` <jwvd4068dsr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2010-04-11 22:22   ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-04-12  2:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-17  1:57       ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-04-17  7:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-17 14:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-17 15:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-17 19:51               ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-04-17 21:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-17 21:17                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-17 21:31                     ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 18:15                       ` widen-one-level [was: Emacs's handling of line numbers] Drew Adams
2010-04-18 21:31                         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-19  0:25                           ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 23:30                         ` Davis Herring
2010-04-19 19:57                           ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-19 20:22                             ` Drew Adams
2010-04-19 22:52                             ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-19  1:56                         ` Leo
2010-04-19  2:04                           ` Drew Adams
2010-04-19 11:34                             ` Leo
2010-04-19 16:31                             ` Drew Adams
2010-04-19 17:57                               ` Leo
2010-04-19 22:56                                 ` Drew Adams
2010-04-22  9:59                                   ` Leo
2010-04-18  3:12                     ` Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-18  3:49                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-18  8:05                         ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-18 13:44                           ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 13:50                             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-18 16:40                               ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 14:03                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-18 14:14                               ` David Kastrup
2010-04-18 16:41                               ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 17:03                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-18 21:29                                   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-18 13:45                           ` Drew Adams
2010-04-18 17:29                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-18 17:52                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-18 17:56                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-18 17:00                       ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-04-18 17:38                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-18 18:11                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-22  2:17                           ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-04-22  8:06                             ` David Kastrup
2010-04-22  8:38                               ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-22  8:45                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-06-06 18:18                             ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-06-07  1:30                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-07  1:41                                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 13:45                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-09  2:20                                     ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-06-09  3:44                                       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-06-09  2:19                                 ` Mark Lillibridge
2010-06-09  6:37                                   ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-24  2:24                                     ` Mark Lillibridge

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