From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation not clear for the Lisp function set-variable Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:07:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119261352 19975 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2005 09:55:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 11:55:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkJ04-0004KT-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkJ2T-0003PR-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkIbE-0006JQ-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DkIbB-0006Gn-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkIbA-00063m-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.193] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DkIIM-0001Gj-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so26299nfe for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LezFK9t3R8jp23xDdTHeX5P0PVKPIVSNACHfIQh2MfqwfXbj9U1LQ379BelfVcFy+P7YOC7Ff5r9cZxjRt8Gxao27fJO5oBhgh/jI2XexnAVG6uvjKAoEhfy12caDhFMZnB4cBaoQxW+DvQ9vXy328KKCdN5dgMu4S3O6cG9CB4= Original-Received: by 10.48.4.10 with SMTP id 10mr76122nfd; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:39163 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39163 On 6/20/05, Richard Stallman wrote: > How about this doc string? >=20 > (defun set-variable (var val &optional make-local) > "Set VARIABLE to VALUE. VALUE is a Lisp object. [...] If you change the docstring, it'd be great to also change the argument names to match the ones in the docstring, or at least to add \(fn VARIABLE VALUE &optional MAKE-LOCAL). --=20 /L/e/k/t/u