From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doing things only in a particular mode
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:35:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bndtn8r6.fsf@yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvvbc2gnrc.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier writes:
>>> Note that I use `-1` as the argument to `visual-line-mode`.
>
> I do the same and recommend others do that as well.
I like better:
(foo-mode 1) ; on
(foo-mode 0) ; off
It looks like a on/off switch.
>>> IIRC an argument of 0 would actually activate the mode.
>> That is wrong,
>
> Indeed, it's wrong. But whether 0 is negative or positive or
> both or neither is a long discussion, so by using -1 you
> completely side step the issue.
A positive number is a number bigger than zero. Zero is not bigger
than zero, so it is not a positive number. It is also not a
negative number, since it is not smaller than zero.
--
Jorge.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-26 19:35 UTC|newest]
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2015-08-24 15:18 ` Doing things only in a particular mode Dan Espen
2015-08-24 16:28 ` Colin Yates
2015-08-24 17:32 ` John Mastro
2015-08-25 1:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-25 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-27 5:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-24 17:18 ` Joost Kremers
2015-08-24 17:30 ` Colin Yates
2015-08-24 19:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-26 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-26 19:35 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo [this message]
2015-08-26 20:09 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-27 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-24 14:49 Colin Yates
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