From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: option doc strings and Customize tags Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:38:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <005601c9385f$86a998c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4907637E.8090402@gmx.at> <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225222770 24737 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2008 19:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 20:40:32 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KuuQ7-0003yw-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuP1-0005Og-2W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuOw-0005O2-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuOu-0005Mp-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43595 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuOu-0005MX-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.182]:6882) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuuOu-0007P8-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b32so1023575ika.2 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Ppn0tgaYF7OQv367g4xyEPIu1uzTTUQ/ZF+Ynz1Wqko=; b=GYGwY8l9MXTu1hrZvOwy/FCSjP0Eq0O3j5yKjiFCMLbEOMnFBb1Q7gMKc0YxfnHKq6 RO1FtvgTf5KUF/bo2ZwpUlvZZEnGp1cEmu3X9FvQhSgkCUcHIOr4wvIcjXsW+U2bpaLb qv9wX6y8XS4xS073uSYxFXKxqKnrvBs4PuQgE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GtnEo4qIw0CszqauXXOACI1uhJtEY6DEZgfW88UwpaUXi8+PlZOxqnkFLNX5dPrg3/ eczOa1CNq3RL2X9QInYSpnAseZO7yvxikhizg/hcnsgt6/6ttDbJ6nXGvuL8hDR/wQpz U9DYJ5TLO0K2+0eckDwtvyj2MyWOxiz8pYZBQ= Original-Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr4935952fga.33.1225222727072; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.65.3 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:105099 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> > nil Case-sensitive >> > t Case-insensitive >> > Use default >> >> I'd put the Lisp values in parentheses as >> >> Case-sensitive (nil) >> Case-insensitive (t) >> Use default > > Sure, fine, whatever. It doesn't matter much what format we use. Except that > adding parens might confuse things for Lisp values that are lists: ((foo bar)). > > A more general formatting problem is that the Lisp values might be quite long. > Some kind of abbreviation is probably called for. A link that is opened in *Help* and shows the value with an explanation where it came from? > And we still need something to > indicate `other value'.