From: Ronald <followait@163.com>
Subject: Re: I think the doc in emacs is too simple in someplaces
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:18:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em7b41$bcd$2@news.yaako.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2081.1166472416.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ronald <followait@163.com>
>> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:02:04 +0800
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> c-toggle-electric-state
>>
>> c-toggle-electric-state is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
>> `cc-cmds.el'.
>> It is bound to C-c C-l, <menu-bar> <C> <Toggle...> <Electric mode>.
>> (c-toggle-electric-state &optional ARG)
>>
>> Toggle the electric indentation feature.
>> Optional numeric ARG, if supplied, turns on electric indentation when
>> positive, turns it off when negative, and just toggles it when zero or
>> left out.
>>
>>
>> It doesn't tell what the function does.
>> And the description about ARG is repeated everywhere,
>> I supposed it's not good.
>
> I agree, but please submit bug reports such as this one to the correct
> forum; "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" will do that for you automatically.
> Also, please report specifically each case of insufficient
> documentation; ``for example'' is not good enough, because Emacs has
> thousands of doc strings, and no one can possibly believe that all of
> them are bad.
>
>
Yes, I should try.
I'm a newbie in Linux.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-18 15:02 I think the doc in emacs is too simple in someplaces Ronald
2006-12-18 16:03 ` Robert D. Crawford
2006-12-19 0:15 ` Ronald
2006-12-19 8:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2006-12-19 9:33 ` Robert D. Crawford
2006-12-18 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2081.1166472416.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-19 0:18 ` Ronald [this message]
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