From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lowercase "arg" in doc strings. Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:52:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: 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 1148309592 15822 80.91.229.2 (22 May 2006 14:53:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 22 16:53:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FiBmG-0006Yl-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FiBmF-0005FT-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FiBm5-0005Eq-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:52:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FiBm1-0005E1-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FiBm1-0005Dy-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FiBq1-00075J-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15031EBEB for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:52:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Yow: Everything will be ALL RIGHT if we can just remember things about ALGEBRA.. or SOCCER.. or SOCIALISM.. In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Mon, 22 May 2006 15:33:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:55052 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > (defun comint-kill-whole-line (&optional arg) > "Kill current line, ignoring read-only and field properties. > -With prefix arg, kill that many lines starting from the current line. > -If arg is negative, kill backward. Also kill the preceding newline, > +With prefix ARG, kill that many lines starting from the current line. > +If ARG is negative, kill backward. Also kill the preceding newline, I don't think this is correct. `Prefix arg' is a technical term that onl= y coincidentally matches the name of the parameter. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."