From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'martin rudalics'" <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4907637E.8090402@gmx.at>
> > nil Case-sensitive
> > t Case-insensitive
> > <other> Use default
>
> I'd put the Lisp values in parentheses as
>
> Case-sensitive (nil)
> Case-insensitive (t)
> Use default
Sure, fine, whatever. It doesn't matter much what format we use. Except that
adding parens might confuse things for Lisp values that are lists: ((foo bar)).
A more general formatting problem is that the Lisp values might be quite long.
Some kind of abbreviation is probably called for. And we still need something to
indicate `other value'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-28 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 5:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30 6:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-29 6:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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