From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:44:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91io4sawna.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9kcysmv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2015 05:37:44 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
The quoting convention is confusing enough that at this point I just
want it to say "it's value is a symbol" or "it's value is a string".
Here, I am specifically refering to what is shown in the help buffer
for describe-variable text-quoting-style>> From: raman@google.com (T.V Raman)
>> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:25:14 -0800
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com
>>
>> I did a describe-variable of text-quoting-style and got confused.
>
> Why was it confusing? How do you expect to see strings vs symbols in
> doc strings?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 23:40 Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? T.V Raman
2015-11-24 0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-24 0:25 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 3:44 ` raman [this message]
2015-11-24 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 16:21 ` raman
2015-11-24 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 23:17 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 23:38 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25 0:07 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25 0:10 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 18:10 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 18:21 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 2:18 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 3:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 5:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 18:07 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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