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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doing things only in a particular mode
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvbc2gnrc.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fv38o4di.fsf@yale.edu

>> Note that I use `-1` as the argument to `visual-line-mode`.

I do the same and recommend others do that as well.

>> 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.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.0.1440427806.19573.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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 [this message]
2015-08-26 19:35       ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
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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