From: daniela-spit@gmx.it
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Toggle appointment notification
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 04:04:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-d08f47e6-74ad-452a-b623-4b82a9e02eaf-1606878273011@3c-app-mailcom-bs14> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87360oncuu.fsf@web.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2020 at 3:47 AM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Toggle appointment notification
>
> daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:
>
> > Would it be possible to clarify this in the defun description string,
> > saying:
> >
> > ARG is positive (ARG > 0), otherwise off.
>
> Would you really want to add that for every command where it could
> matter? That would be a lot.
I see.
> BTW, it wouldn't clarify the issue in my opinion: since +0 is probably
> not negative, and when we assume it is different from 0, i.e. not `=' 0,
> I would guess it could be > 0, so the above sentence would still not
> make it clear how a hypothetical +0 would behave.
How about putting a note in the Emacs Tutorial. It is short and every new user
reads. And say that by positive we always mean greater than zero. In french
speaking countries, zero is considered positive.
Daniela
> Michael.
>
>
>
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2020-12-01 3:47 Toggle appointment notification pietru
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2020-12-01 18:35 ` pietru
2020-12-01 18:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 19:01 ` pietru
2020-12-01 19:13 ` pietru
2020-12-01 19:23 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 19:38 ` pietru
2020-12-01 19:53 ` tomas
2020-12-01 19:58 ` pietru
2020-12-02 15:00 ` pietru
2020-12-02 15:15 ` pietru
2020-12-02 15:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-02 15:58 ` pietru
2020-12-02 17:39 ` pietru
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2020-12-03 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-03 2:18 ` pietru
2020-12-03 22:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-03 1:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-12-03 22:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-12 1:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-12 1:26 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-12 1:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-12 1:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-12 1:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-12 1:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-12 3:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-12 4:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-12 22:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-17 4:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-03 2:17 ` daniela-spit
2020-12-03 3:19 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-03 5:35 ` pietru
2020-12-03 15:19 ` pietru
2020-12-03 17:09 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 17:20 ` pietru
2020-12-03 17:58 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 18:29 ` pietru
2020-12-03 19:41 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 19:58 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 20:23 ` pietru
2020-12-03 20:38 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 21:30 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-03 22:43 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-03 22:51 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-03 23:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-03 23:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-03 23:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-04 0:28 ` pietru
2020-12-04 5:59 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-04 6:28 ` pietru
2020-12-04 7:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-03 23:59 ` pietru
2020-12-04 1:13 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-04 1:39 ` pietru
2020-12-03 10:19 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 21:44 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-02 8:41 ` tomas
2020-12-02 12:05 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02 12:37 ` tomas
2020-12-02 13:15 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02 13:52 ` tomas
2020-12-02 14:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02 14:20 ` Robert Pluim
2020-12-02 15:04 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-02 15:08 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-02 21:14 ` tomas
2020-12-02 21:41 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-02 22:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-02 22:54 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-02 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-02 15:04 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-02 1:54 ` daniela-spit
2020-12-02 2:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-02 3:04 ` daniela-spit [this message]
2020-12-02 3:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-02 4:16 ` daniela-spit
2020-12-02 4:26 ` daniela-spit
2020-12-02 4:59 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 9:13 ` Andreas
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