From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disable menu bar mode
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:37:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867etjh299.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6eb917e5-a6a3-46b2-b6c5-7b2488647935@googlegroups.com
Rusi wrote:
> My init has (scroll-bar-mode 0)
> (tool-bar-mode 0) (setq
> inhibit-startup-message t) (setq
> initial-scratch-message nil) ;(fringe-mode 1)
> ;(menu-bar-mode 0)
>
> Has been so for years…
>
> [The menu-bar-mode was probably commented out
> after I started using org mode]
>
> IOW the complaint is with the confusing and
> incomplete documentation: «nil = true (turn
> on)?? So what is false then?»
What's with the angle bracket quotes? Here is
what the docstring to `scroll-bar-mode'
actually say:
With a prefix argument ARG, enable Scroll
Bar mode if ARG is positive, and disable it
otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable the
mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
It is the last sentence that perhaps is missing
"If called from Lisp *the same rule applies but
it is also possible* to enable the mode if ARG
is omitted or nil.
As it stands, it sounds like in Lips, there is
another set of rules altogether, and you are
left in the dark as how to *disable* it...
But Rusi seems to be upset about something
else, quoting fictitious documentation?
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-19 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-14 1:55 Disable menu bar mode Rusi
2017-12-14 2:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-12-14 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-12-14 2:49 ` Kaushal Modi
[not found] ` <mailman.5687.1513219781.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-14 3:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-12-14 5:13 ` Kaushal Modi
[not found] ` <mailman.5689.1513228434.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-14 5:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-12-14 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-18 21:39 ` B. T. Raven
2017-12-19 1:45 ` Rusi
2017-12-19 2:37 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-12-19 2:37 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.5961.1513651377.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-12-19 13:52 ` Rusi
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