From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com,
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com: display-pixel behavior changed on Mac OS X]
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:46:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd528bd9i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HcAnX-0001ky-ML@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2007 21\:41\:59 -0400")
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> Would someone please update the documentation string of
>> x-display-pixel-width, and the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual?
> Something like "When the screen spans multiple monitors, the function
> returns the width (height) of the whole screen"? It looks a bit
> superfluous to me.
> It is not superfluous to document these primitives correctly.
> Would someone who knows precisely what these functions now do
> please document them?
I think the most important part is to document the terminology in the
manual to clearly distinguish display/screen/framebuffer/...
And then maybe add a note to every docstring referring to this part of
the manual, like "See <foobar> for the differences between screens,
displays, and frambuffers".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 4:13 [ryanmcgeary@hotmail.com: display-pixel behavior changed on Mac OS X] Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 8:16 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-04-11 13:06 ` Ryan McGeary
2007-04-11 14:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-04-11 23:03 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-12 8:29 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-04-13 1:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-13 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-04-15 19:43 ` Chong Yidong
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