From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lisp/generic.el patch.
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:37:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5d5tzk0n6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DBbHg-00046e-5T@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:12 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Thanks very much for making etc/TODO smaller.
> I have one minor criticism:
>
> (defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t
> ! "*If non-nil, add a hook to enter `default-generic-mode' automatically.
>
> That doc string should say
>
> (defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t
> ! "*If non-nil, add a hook to enter Default-Generic mode automatically.
>
> because the convention for referring to modes in English text
> is to use the mode's name in English, rather than a Lisp symbol name.
>
> There are some other doc strings and comments that need a like change.
In this case, I'd prefer to have
(defcustom generic-use-find-file-hook t
! "*If non-nil, add a hook to call `default-generic-mode' automatically.
The main rationale is that this will give a working cross reference
link in the help window.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-16 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 17:06 lisp/generic.el patch Lute Kamstra
2005-03-15 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-15 20:19 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-03-15 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-15 21:47 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-03-21 22:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-16 16:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-16 16:37 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-03-16 16:37 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-17 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-17 16:34 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-03-17 16:39 ` Lute Kamstra
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