From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: default-truncate-lines Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:15:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204462525 27036 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2008 12:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 02 13:55:51 2008 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 1JVnjK-0006fj-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:55:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVnin-0007TF-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVniW-0007Qs-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JVniU-0007PP-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JVniS-0007P0-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:54:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVniS-0007kc-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m22CspLP000509; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:54:52 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E3912FCE; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:54:51 +0100 (CET) X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY; Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m, tWj]&}, qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi, +g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Monnier , In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:38:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-CTc-dcc2-Metrics: poseidon 1031; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:91057 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 23 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> -(defcustom gnus-article-truncate-lines default-truncate-lines >>> +(defcustom gnus-article-truncate-lines (default-value 'truncate-lines) >> I don't care about this change, but out of curiosity: (why) does it >> make a difference? > > Every time I see one of those default-FOO variable used I get flashes of > the following code: [...] > and every time I get to replace it with a use of `default-value', I feel > like maybe this madness will disappear some day. Wouldn't it make sense to suggest using (default-value 'foo) in the doc strings of `default-foo'? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/