From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: option doc strings and Customize tags Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:56 -0700 Message-ID: <005201c93933$6bd2eb30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <005601c9385f$86a998c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <4907637E.8090402@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225222315 22924 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2008 19:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'martin rudalics'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 20:32:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KuuGd-00080u-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:30:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuFW-0006Jh-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuFS-0006JB-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuFP-0006IL-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60335 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuuFP-0006IG-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:60002) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuuFP-0003zQ-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m9SJSsGn006299; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:28:54 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m9SJSrJs015631; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:28:53 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:28:53 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4907637E.8090402@gmx.at> Thread-Index: Ack5Mdb/aUStacIXRtSaqQEm3lwMYwAAOxfw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105097 Archived-At: > > nil Case-sensitive > > t Case-insensitive > > 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'.